09-17-2017, 06:59 PM
(09-17-2017, 05:36 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: The valid claims are that this team has a hard time luring desirable free agents.
In other words...
If you have talent, you'd better retain it... and YES you are going to pay more than average.
If they accepted this reality(and some of us as fans)then Whit and Zeitler would still be on this team.
No way they bring in any O-Line free agent as talented as these guys.
Even if Whit was "looking long in the tooth" and Zeitler had a ho-hum season.
The odds of coming close to magically replacing the talent of either were very low.
These two are going to missed. Their plan failed. It's still their fault for not at least retaining one of the two.
The stupidity, ignorance, ego, whatever never ceases to amaze me.
We don't know if we have trouble landing talented free agents as we wait until the dust settles of the 1st week of free agency before we start to bring guys in for visits.
We generally have cap space. Like this year...we had somewhere around $22 million in cap space yet teams with much less cap space like the Steelers tagged Bell, extended Brown and Tuitt to huge contracts AND signed Haden to a large contract.
