09-11-2015, 10:40 AM
(09-10-2015, 12:53 PM)BengalChris Wrote: Excellent find.
One of the statements that stood out to me was: "...before the whole thing is blown to free agent smithereens."
If that's the team's plan, which I'm not sure it is, why didn't we spend our first two picks in the draft on players who will help us this year? Circumstances just beg the question.
The legacies for Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton sure are wrapped up in this year. Laying complete rotten eggs in games this year isn't going to fly, regardless of who gets injured or how good the other teams turn out to be.
Mike Brown's legacy was written more than a decade ago when he nose dived the franchise and kept it at the bottom for 15 years. Bringing it part way back up just ain't good enough. Even a SB isn't good enough. Really, if the guy had any sense of honor for his father, he'd change his last name to Smith and move to Alaska and hide in a cabin where the roads freeze over in the winter.
That is my problem with this organization. It always seems to be about "building for the future". I personally think they need to be more concerned with the here and now.
The cap is going to continue to go up and the team has a lot of contracts coming off. As others have said, it's not like they put new contracts on top of the old ones. I am new to this board, but was on the other for about seven years. It's always the same story... "the team has no money", "how can they sign anyone with contracts coming up", "it's a small market". If they lose many in free agency, then it is a choice to do so.
