Bengals sign Trae Waynes

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(03-17-2020, 07:24 PM)RunKijanaRun Wrote: PFF doesn’t exactly love Schobert, if that’s our criteria. I think PFF is borderline useless, fwiw, but if you’re going to use it to tear down Waynes it’s tough to argue that Schobert would have been better unless you’re merely arguing positional need.

Yeah, agreed it's not the be-all end-all by any means. I'm just arguing that there's not a big difference performance-wise between Dennard and Waynes, but there's a massive financial difference. A financial difference that would have been much better off paying Littleton or one of the top OL.

Top 4 CBs for the Bengals 2019:  WJ3, Dennard, Kirkpatrick, Webb
Top 4 CBs fro the Bengals 2020: WJ3, Waynes, Kirkpatrick, Webb

The improvement is marginal, if any at all. It is a lateral movement, with massive financial difference that will now be used by the Bengals FO as reasoning why they couldn't improve the LBs or OL. Those two are still huge glaring weaknesses and have been for years now. A $20m average-to-slightly-above-average CB (which is what Waynes is in 2020) is not the solution for the Bengals woes.

The Bengals are giving Waynes $20m in 2020 alone.
The Jets are giving Connor McGovern $27m from 2020-2022.

The Raiders are paying $6m less for Littleton than the Bengals are paying for Waynes and Littleton would have made a MUCH MUCH bigger difference for the Bengals than Waynes will. It's just bad FO-ing.