Bengals sign Trae Waynes

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(03-17-2020, 06:43 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Dennard was rated as the 97th best free agent by PFF on that same list.

Waynes was right up there with Schobert, who everyone was wringing their hands about losing.

We also replaced the 92nd best free agent (Billings) with the 33rd. Again, according to PFF's list.

We got better today.

The Waynes/Dennard ranking different I imagine is largely based off of their age difference rather than where they actually were play-wise.

I also question if the Bengals will get the same out of Waynes as the Vikings (and Mike Zimmer) got out of him. Do you honestly want to bet that Lou Anarumo is going to get more out of a player than Mike Zimmer could? That concerns me a lot.

EDIT: PFF has Dennard at a 72.2 grade for 2019, and Waynes at a 65.1 grade for 2019. I just don't understand how $11m/yr was too much money for a LB for the Bengals, but they can give a mediocre starting CB $20m in year 1.

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Just seems like a marginal improvement in positions that weren't in dire need for improvements, for a whole lot of money that could have been better spent yesterday on OL and LB.

Neither of those guys are going to protect Joe Burrow, and neither of those guys are going to stop Ravens TEs and Lamar Jackson's scrambling.