Jim O - Expect Bengals to have about $15 mill for open FA market

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(03-11-2018, 02:00 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This just is not true.

Teams have to trade away or cut vakuable players in order to makem other moves.  There is not magic fairy dust that allows teams to sign all of their own players and sign free agents.

If you think there are good players out there in free agency where do they come from?  They come from teams who have to let good players go for salary reasons.

the Bengals are no where near the cheapest team when it comes to paying players.

Those teams just don't make it a priority to re-sign players like Bodine, Andre Smith, Adam Jones, and Eifert to take 10+m off the cap. That's the difference. Sure they make cuts. They don't feel the need to keep players like MJ and Lafell. I don't slam them for making those cap casualty cuts to bring in talent.

We'll see as we always do teams with far less cap space re-signing their players (even using the Franchise tag) and being active in free agency.