BJ Hill Re-signing with Bengals

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(03-14-2022, 04:17 PM)Rubekahn29 Wrote: You say that like it’s bad. There are only 32 teams and we don’t have the highest paid anything. We are bound to have to pay somebody high. You can’t skimp on every position or you get an O-line like last year or a D-line like the year before. You want the 17 sack D-line or the 42 sack D-line?

Yes, but there are 64 starting DEs and what.. something like 48 starting DTs? (I don't know exactly how many 3-4 vs 4-3 teams there are.) So of ~132 starting DEs+DTs in the NFL, the Bengals have 3 of the top 19 paid, making your lines of "skimping" on every position and "have to pay somebody high" extremely silly.

(03-14-2022, 04:17 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I get it. It's a risk. But it's also a risk to let both of your awesome DT tandem (Larry O and BJ Hill) walk with no apparent replacements.

Hill played great in the playoffs as the starter without Larry O rotating with him, and I'm sure we'll plug someone else in to keep him fresh this year.

They weren't awesome a year ago. They combined for 3.5 sacks in 2020. Hill had 1.0 sacks in both 2020 and 2019.

Maybe they were in a better scheme now, or maybe they just had career years while surrounded by DL talent.

Obviously I could be wrong and we won't know until games start being played, but I think it's a huge gamble to pay Hill like this, just don't like it and I don't think it'll pay off. If it keeps them from acquiring another quality OL I will go from not liking it to outright hating it.

(03-14-2022, 04:18 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: What's your point? 

Do we not want a good DL? Did you see what the Rams did to us in the SB? 

If you watched the Super Bowl and your takeaway was that the Bengals needed a better DL in order to win, then you weren't watching the Super Bowl.

Not to mention the Bengals aren't signing Aaron Donald or Von Miller. We're talking about BJ Hill... who by the way, they are going to be yearly paying more than 10x the amount the Rams paid Von Miller.

They also did it with a 4th round pick first time starter on their DL.