6 KEY DAYS COMING FOR BENGALS

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(02-17-2022, 09:56 AM)kevin Wrote: Other teams will be all over Reiff and Bates on Day One of Free Agency.  They will not be as easy to resign because of that.  Now if you are saying Uzomah is a Free Agent also, that is a problem.   The Bengals will have to use their one Franchise Tag wisely.  The Bengals do not have long to decide who they lock in for one more year with the Tag. 

I don't think the entire O Line is up for being replaced. Getting rid of all 5 starters on a Super Bowl O Line could just put Bengals back in Last Place.  Jonah Williams and others will be back.  They do need to Add some Better Blockers, but in no way would I suggest a complete elimination and rebuild after winning 3 Play-Off Games and AFC.   The First Bengal Draft Pick must be a BLOCKER, that should not even be up for debate. Burrow needs a lot more BLOCKING.  What Burrow did behind this Line, he really should have been NFL MVP. 

Teams will be all over Reiff? What?!?! Franchise tag him?!?! You do realize he was cut last year because nobody would pay him $11 mil (far less than franchise tag) and then didn’t have a bunch of teams lining up to make him a starter. In fact most assumed he was going to be forced to be a backup or at best kick inside to guard. He also made less than half of the franchise tag amount this season and did nothing to really outperform that salary. He also had injury concerns. We should be worried about UPGRADING Reiff, not how we are going to keep him.

CJ is also not a franchise tag candidate.

The bengals have ONE legitimate franchise tag player and that is bates. If we don’t franchise tag him we don’t franchise tag anyone. The price that franchise tag players cost is way to high to just use it simply to keep a player. They have to be worth paying top 5 money to.