Are we being realistic with Free Agency expectations?

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(02-18-2022, 11:55 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Hobson is full of beans.  But so are the fans who say we should have spent $16 million on Thuney last year when we ended up with less than $6 million in cap space.  We could have manipulated the contract so that we could have had less than a $6 million cap hit last year, but then we would be looking at replacing 6 starers plus Hill and a bunch of other players for about $30 million.

And maybe, just maybe, a super bowl to show for it. Just saying. You can’t always keep building for the future. At some point you need to put your chips in the middle of the table. The only team that was able to avoid this was patriots and Brady, which isn’t the norm.

It’s literally the most obvious thing we have ever seen. Get a good OL. I don’t care if our backups suck, as long as our starters are good. We played, down the stretch… 4 backup OL. It’s criminal… and somehow the bengals almost won in spite of that.