10-17-2017, 01:41 PM
(10-17-2017, 01:20 PM)TheUberHuber Wrote: I am wondering if they will address this in the new deal they make. What they have going now is still better (imo) than rookies holding out for absurd contracts or rookies making tons of money to suck it up.
Yeah. In some ways (slotted rookie deals) it helped the Bengals.
In some ways it hurt them badly as we had a lot of our core become free agents in the past 2 years and they allowed most to leave...and replace them with drafted guys. (Sanu, Jones, Nelson, Hall, Peko, Whitworth, Zeitler, and Nelson. That's basically 8 starters.) Then guys like Maualuga and Dansby are gone. Smith left and came back too.
The premium positions got paid more in free agency which makes the Bengals choose to let them go and replace them with a rookie.
The team won't totally fall off the competitive cliff until Atkins leaves. He's a free agent after next season.
