Free Agency is Over (before it even began)

[BengalChris]

(02-12-2018, 06:13 PM)jj22 Wrote: For Bengals fans looking for upgrades during Free Agency (and hoping Marvin won something when he was begged to come back) are in for a sad reality once again.

With the Front office attention fully on Dunlap and Geno this offseason, there will be no money left over. NONE. (I understand you can't tag one next offsesaon, that's only useed on Kickers).

Thus hopes of some help on the Oline will likely be Andre Smith, and LB will be re-singing Minter.

Also the growing belief is that Adam Jones will remain a Bengal so we can't create any cap space from cutting him.

Only good news is they may not be able to afford Bodine (but they'll somehow make that work).

On to the Draft.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2018/02/10/cincinnati-bengals-xtra-setting-table-bengals-free-agency/323385002/?from=new-cookie

I believe you are overly optimistic about what the Bengals will actually do in free agency.

I have Mikey boy down for another botched veteran move and predict that he'll f'up either Atkins or Dunlap's offers opening the door for a key departure next season. Mikey will low ball one of them with an insulting offer and come next off season he won't even offer that player a contract. Yep, we've seen it before and we'll see it again from the guy who never learns from his mistakes.

The team will overpay to keep Bodine by paying him as a start where as every other team in the league sees him as a backup. This will take money away from signing an actual decent player and continue to saddle our offense with a weak middle.

Then we have two OTs on the roster and two who are now free agents (Andre Smith and Eric Winston) and none of these four players are starter quality.

Yep, we'll need a great draft to have any chance of fielding a winning team in 2018. The same was true of last year's draft and the team wasted the 9th overall pick on a WR who had 1 touch, 1 fumble and 0 catches and was inactive for most games even when healthy.

The more desperate Mikey boy is that more loony his decisions are.