12-04-2018, 05:43 PM
(12-04-2018, 05:25 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Bengals offered $10 million (I guess we are taking that number as accurate). He signed with Rams for $11.25 million per year.
The rest of the contract terms are only a big deal if Whit wanted to get paid for not playing or paid top money for not playing well. And that is exactly what the Bengals were afraid of. Mike Brown got burnt on the contracts he gave to both Levi Jones and Willie Anderson so he was a little gun shy about promising to pay a lot of money to a guy for not playing.
Lots of other teams do the same thing with older players. The only reason it was such a disaster here is because the replacements we had were total crap. Nothing wrong with the Bengals plan. It is exactly what the Patriots do. We just failed horribly in the execution.
Only 15m of his Rams deal was guaranteed. Pretty low risk investment for a player of Whit's caliber at a premium position.
