Whitworth-Bengals lowballed

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(12-05-2018, 11:41 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Wasn't it you that did the thread a couple years ago about how MB being cheap letting high dollar vets go actually cost him money in trying to replace them with the bargain basement guys ?

Yeah, it was the JJo situation.

I don't know where that post is, but it was a pretty absurd list of money/picks spent over the following 4 years trying to replace JJo's production.

Something like...

Brandon Ghee: 3rd round pick, $2.44m rookie deal
Dre Kirkpatrick: 1st round pick, $8.6m rookie deal + $7.5m option
Shaun Prater: 5th round pick, $2.2m rookie deal

Nate Clements: 2yr/$10.5m
Kelly Jennings: Clinton McDonald, $1.8m  (McDonald has 3 seasons of 5+ sacks, and a SB ring now.)
Terrence Newman: 3yr/$5.825m
Jason Allen: 2yr/$8.2m

Basically summed up to be a 1st round pick, 3rd round pick, 5th round pick, Clinton McDonald, and $47.6m.... instead of just giving JJo more guaranteed money on a 5yr/$48.75m deal and getting better production on top of it.

I might have missed something from the original post as far as more detail and maybe a missed player, but that's more or less the jist of it.

Whitworth will totally be/is already a Part 2 of this.


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(I don't think I counted Adam Jones, because he was originally just signed as a return guy who then grew into the #3 job. Never was really an attempt to replace JJo's production.)