Bengals retain Iloka

[CarolinaBengalFanGuy]

I think this is a completely fair deal. Something you rarely see. Only typically when a player takes a home town discount (basically what they ought to be worth). He's not the best safety in the league, but he's good and on the rise and young so 5 years $30 million is exactly the right kind of value.


Hopefully the fact that we let most of our signees stay (especially the more long term ones) with the exceptions of the biggest of busts, throughout the term of their signed contracts can become at least somewhat of a good reason to come play for the Bengals organization. Plus we do win a lot right now and make our impending free agents look good when their contracts are finished.

If we could just win a damn playoff game I could see people actually really wanting to come here rather than painstakingly getting a few in here and then them realizing it's a good loyal organization and wanting to stay.


In Marvin Jones case I just don't think we were willing to offer probably more than $4-5 million a year and the Lions are desperate. I hate to lose him, but the value just isn't there for us when we have a true #1 and a break out TE. Not to mention a good receiving running back on top of that. I would like to see us sign Anquan Boldin or that Rishard kid as a safety valve and get BPA WR in that 1st to 3rd round area.