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(03-09-2022, 01:34 PM)Au165 Wrote: What’s your point? Hendrickson accepted the same offer we tried to give him, he accepted the same cap number with more guarantees. The context of all my comments have been that we aren’t limited by cap we are limited by our aversion to large guarantees. As a whole, we offer less guarantees across the board beyond year one than nearly any team in the league.

I’m literally not even arguing anything in regards to Lawson, it was just one example about how we are competitive in the top line cap hit number everyone references but fall short in guarantees. As we keep acting like we need to have cap to sign all the OL, they keep missing the real reason we will fall below what people are expecting.

Lawson is really the main example of the Bengals losing out on a player over guarantees.  There are a lot more high profile examples of them losing out over APY, like Whit, Zeitler, and Thuney.  

It's been pointed out before by former players that despite the Bengals not handing out a ton of guaranteed money, most players make more money in the long haul due to the team managing the cap well and it's reluctance to cut veterans who may be underperforming a bit.  However, if you're as injury prone as Lawson was, I can see why you'd want a ton of money guaranteed at signing.