02-17-2017, 11:03 AM
(02-16-2017, 06:17 PM)Southendbengal Wrote: Wasn't that pretty much happened with Andre Smith as well on his first extension too?
I seem to remember if was a mix of the Bengals paying the patient game and Smith looking for bigger numbers than he was going to get and that turned out okay for the team. Not that this tactic doesn't obviously have the risk of the player leaving no matter what a bit like MLJ who wanted to be the go to guy even for the same money (or a little less I believe).
It's exactly what happened with Smith. He thought he was worth way more than the market brought him. If they Bengals had not let him find out he wasn't "all that and a bag of chips" to the other teams looking for RT's, they would have had to overpay him. Instead, they let him test the market, he got his bubble burst, and they made a deal. Now, like I said, I want them to resign Zeitler, and I think they will. But I also want them to be smart about it, and I think they are.....
