12-20-2017, 05:53 PM
(12-09-2017, 06:54 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Dre's pro football focus rating for the entire season is around 49. That's 49 out of a possible 100. On pro football focus's scale that equates to a rating of "poor".
That rating would put him around 98tb best corner in the league for the season. 98th. That's close to dead last.
Dre Kirkpatrick is making 52 million dollars and just signed an extension in the off season.
This is a legit problem. Does Dre's poor play, large salary, and the emergence of Dennard and Jackson make him a cut candidate in the off-season?
It should, but it won't.
Yet again, this is a problem with how Mike Brown operates. He offers little guaranteed money on contracts, and in exhange, he offers extreme loyalty regardless of performance. This means...
1. We will never be players in free agency, where guaranteed money is important.
2. We will keep players whose performance doesn't match up with their salary. In a league with a salary cap, carrying around dead weight like Dre Kirkpatrick can be crippling. Not only is he a bad player, he's taking a good chunk of cap space.
No other team operates like this. Yet another way Mike Brown makes the Bengals "unique".
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
