09-08-2016, 12:28 PM
(09-07-2016, 10:39 PM)TGISunday Wrote: Usually we're trying to extend at least one of our core players right before the season starts -- often before camp ends. But all's quiet this year.
Did we already get our guys early? Any work on Zeit, Eifert, Kirkpatrick (lower his cap hit, like Zeit). Just a little different feel this year.
The Bengals unloaded salary cap in Carson Palmer, Chad Johnson and a few others and had money to spend for a while....but since then these new guys are veterans and it took big money to keep AJ Green, Dalton, Atkins, Dunlap....which may have caused letting more players leave than normal, such as Andre Smith, Leon Hall, Reggie Nelson, Marvin Jones, Sanu. ....and Bengals forced to have all these big fat contract extensions the last few years may be in dire need of a less active year for salary cap reasons and contracts that may be coming up in 2017. ......I would say Kirkpatrick needs to prove he is worth his # 1 pick a few years ago and prove he is worth a contract extension. I have no doubt they want to keep Zeitler and Eifert, but Kirkpatrick is far from being one of the top CBs in the NFL. If the Bengals let Joseph leave too early, Kirky needs to step up and be the top CB on this team. If Jones is the top CB on this team this year, that was not why they drafted Kirky and Dennard in first rounds. It is way past time for Kirky to have a Pro Bowl type season.
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