Tyler Boyd

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(02-15-2022, 06:21 AM)casear2727 Wrote: "They could sign 3 guys and make each of them the highest paid offensive linemen in NFL history one after another and still have over $10m in cap space."

This simply reveals that you are not taking into account the amount of players we need to sign and re-sign. There are several posts listing who we lose and what it would take to keep them.  I'm not sure what else to tell you but it goes pretty quick.

In order for us to have sustained success - defined by me as being good enough to make a significant playoff run each year - we need players that produce at or above their salary.

I dont think we need any 3 personnel at 10M, wether it be WR3, DE3, DT3, CB3, etc.  Especially when our oline is bad enough to threaten us losing Burrow each season.

Or it simply reveals that I was using it as an example of how absurdly much there is to spend. The top 4 highest paid OL are all LTs and the Bengals aren't in the market for one. I was just stating that it was possible.

Thuney signed for $16m/yr to be the highest paid G.
Linsley signed for $12.5m/yr to be the highest paid C at the time.

James Daniels, G: 5yr/$50m
https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bears/james-daniels-contract-extension-free-agency/

Austin Corbett, G: 4yr/$33.5m
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/los-angeles-rams/austin-corbett-25132/market-value/

Bradley Bozeman, C: 4yr/$40m
https://ebonybird.com/2022/02/05/bradley-bozeman-unlikely-ravens-2022/

Then use the 31st pick in the 2022 NFL Draft to draft a RT: 4yr/$11.3m (in 2021)

....even if you want to pretend that contract cap hits are equally spread year-by-year (they're not), that's just roughly $31.2m... out of $72.6m, leaving the Bengals $41.4m to fill the rest of their roster. Can we finally stop this nonsense?