12-01-2022, 10:51 PM
(12-01-2022, 12:56 AM)Housh Wrote: No
No franchise has ever kept this many good players
We are at minimum losing one WR, Bates, and either Mixon or Pratt. And that’s me being nice. Hurst is playing himself into a CJ like contract that i know we won’t give him
The Colts kept Manning, Harrison, Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Clark, Saturday, and Glenn for most of their period of success. Other pieces came and went, mainly at running back and slot receiver. You can pay several good players, you just have to draft well and know how to churn the roster. They let Edge go to keep the others.
The Bengals will be built similarly if they keep playing at this level. Burrow, Chase, Maybe Higgins, a couple of defensive anchors, then churn the rest. I doubt we see another big RB contract in the Burrow era.
Paying an title quarterback insane money is a challenge, but it's a challenge that the 90 percent of the league wishes they had to deal with. I'm just about convinced that Burrow can make just about anyone around him good, which will make his salary a lot less difficult to mitigate.
