Ex-Bengals Current Records

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(10-27-2016, 11:03 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Hawk was a big issue of debate. If I remember correctly Hawk was a RFA and we put the lowest Tender possible on him and the Browns signed him. If we would have put the next higher tender on him anybody that signed him would have owed us a draft pick.

Yup, it was like 700k more to give him a 2nd round tender if I remember properly.

Then the Bengals declined to match the Browns offer so they got neither the player nor the pick.

Can't even blame Hawk. 1yr/$1.4m or 4yr/$14m with $6.8m guaranteed isn't even a question. "Chasing the money" is turning down 5yr/$30m from a winning team to get 5yr $40m from a losing team. 

What Hawk did was just the only logical choice. Even more so considering his advanced age when he got into the NFL and what he did while trying to make it. (Worked as a caddy, slept on friend's couches.)