"we keep our own"

[Shake n Blake]

(02-17-2017, 11:03 AM)Sled21 Wrote: 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.....

This "strategy" has an obvious risk of backfiring though, and it has backfired several times.

The problem I have with not "overpaying" for a guy like Zeitler is that we definitely overpay for mediocre players like Hall, Peko, Maualuga, etc. Of course, that is more of a "loyalty" issue. Mike doesn't like to offer much guaranteed money on contracts, so they make up for it by keeping players through the end of their contracts.