12-05-2018, 05:57 PM
(12-05-2018, 02:40 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: To the bold - of course he didn't get offers from all 32 teams. What free agent ever has? The biggest free agent in any given year only has a handful of teams competing for his services for various reasons. For Whit to have 4-5 teams competing for him at age 34 is pretty impressive, wouldn't you say.
Also, the idea that signing Whit was too big of a risk for the Bengals...I'll repeat what I said before. They could have simply structured the deal the same way the Rams did, and other teams were offering to do: guaranteeing 1 year, being able to easily part ways if it didn't work out. Even if they didn't want to go with that low-risk type of deal for whatever reason...they still had the franchise tag available. That would've have gave them another year of Whit's services while having more time to evaluate Og and/or Fisher, which hadn't shown much at that point. IMO, it was a much bigger gamble to bank on OG as the starting LT - and I said it at the time, not just in hindsight - than it was to give Whit at least one more year. But, they decided to roll with Og and here we are.
As for the Rams signing Whit to a 3 year deal not being a smart play, I disagree because they crafted a deal that minimized their risk if things didn't work out. Even though they were desperate for a LT, they didn't go out and give a crazy deal that vastly overpaid or that they wouldn't be able to get out of. IDK man, that's seems pretty smart and reasonable and the Bengals could've easily done the same...but chose not to.
There are people on here who will always defend the Bengals Management no matter what.
They will think that it was injuries. Bad luck. League conspiracies. But...NEVER poor management.
