Legal tampering period

[CJD]

(03-13-2023, 10:18 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Just to get it out of the way before all the news/rumors start coming in, I just wanted to say this is probably my favorite part of the offseason.
Talking the draft is fun, but the FA signings help give a way better roadmap for who the Bengals might draft (at least position-wise).
FA also is what gets the fans most excited or frustrated based on who the Bengals sign.

Free agency used to mean nothing to me, because the Bengals were NEVER big players in free agency's first (or often second) wave. 

In my time as a fan (2005 onward), the biggest free agents we'd had before 2020 were, like, Laveranues Coles (over 30, on his 4th team and pretty washed up), Antonio Bryant (probably our biggest free agent bust ever. Maybe Waynes can top him now, not sure), Pacman Jones (Bargain bin addition because of his history and we technically didn't even sign him from another team because he played in the CFL the year before he joined us) and Terence Newman (cut by the Cowboys and just looking for a familiar face in Zimmer. Signed him for less than a million dollars. He was okay though).

It's been a ton of fun in the last 3 years though. I am hoping that continues today