Bengals Cap Management

[SunsetBengal]

(03-16-2024, 05:54 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Why would discuss a Bengal's FO ran by Mike Brown when we know Duke and Katie run the FO now.

You can continue to be down on our FO, but the Bengals led by Joe Burrow have a shot at making the Super Bowl every year. When have we been able to say that with a straight face under Mike Brown's leadership? They have invested in the defense with Trey, Hilton, Pratt, Wilson, Hill and Hubbard and Reader until 2024. Sorry, I trust them and not you with making roster decisions to appease fans fears and anxiety. My guess is Bengals will sell out again in 2024, bad rosters don't sell out stadiums, we know first hand from experience. 

Bengals are like any team built around a franchise QB, the QB has to stay healthy. The 49ers are built around a great OL and great defense and a game managing QB who makes peanuts allowing them to keep pumping money into other players. But they are a lot like the Bengals, got to Super Bowl 2X, but no SB wins because of this guy named Mahomes. 

The Bengals still have a ways to go before we can trust that they're operating to the maximum ability of cap manipulation in order to add talent to a team that is just a few players away from being back in the Superbowl.  So far, they have waded into the shallow end of modernism by actually taking active part in free agency, but as we saw this season they can still be quite passive with it.  Seems like most of the players that many of us had hopes that the team would compete for were agreed to terms within the first few hours of the "legal tampering" period. Sure, now they're beginning to make a cut or two to free up a little space, but they haven't even touched the idea of restructuring to get more space to load up for a "Win or die trying" type of season.

And that is sad, because we have a genuine franchise QB, along with a few cornerstone players to back him up.  We needed to add just 2 or 3 key players to have confidence heading into the draft without and "needs" and boldly stepping into the next season.