09-18-2017, 10:56 AM
(09-18-2017, 10:47 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: There is no excuse for not re-signing Whit. He offered to play OG which would have allowed them to play Ogbuehi at LT and give them a viable insurance policy if he sucked at LT as much as he sucked at RT. Whit's deal is structured so that if he suddenly starts to suck the Rams can cut him with less than $6 million in dead money or $3 million for two seasons. His salary with bonus money during the first two years are less than what the Bengals offered him for one. If the Rams do cut him after this year the Rams will pay him his guaranteed money if $12.5 million. So basically, the Bengals didn't re-sign Whit because of a difference of $2.5 million in guaranteed money.
You can fail to plan or you can plan to fail, Mike Brown did both by gambling the season on what Ogbuehi had shown.
BTW, the Bengals are sitting on $12M in cap space.
Yep. And they'd have over $15 million in cap space if they didn't sign Andre Smith. That was a TERRIBLE signing in hindsight too. We needed a starter.
