2024 Bengals Free Agency/Roster Thread

[SunsetBengal]

(03-01-2024, 07:59 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: FWIW, I am not a contract savant. IDK if the figures here are for simple restructures (converting stuff to signing bonus & prorated), which can be done, usually, without player consent, ir if they refer to maximum restructures which does require player consent as is more like an extension.

But here is what OTC has to say about our potential in this area.

Someone who knows better than me can chime in.

https://overthecap.com/transactions-table

Again, I would not do it unless there were significant FA's out there who could help us AND wanted to come here. But I am in full "put all our chips in the middle" time. Burrow's extension kicks in next year. We have 2 more years of tags to play with with Tee and 2 years before Chase's extension kicks in. Hendrickson is 30. Reader is 29.

The time is now.

Yes, the notion of creating cap space to load up for a big run sure does seem tantalizing.  However, I cannot for the life of me envision the front office pushing debt into the future.  I mean, most years they roll cap over to the next.