09-01-2020, 08:27 PM
(09-01-2020, 08:13 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Terrible deal.
Even if we ignore how paying non-generational talent RBs is a bad idea, they just gave him $500k/yr less than Henry, and Mixon is nowhere near Henry.
Bengals are going to regret this because they're locked in pretty solidly now. $6m in dead cap if they tried to get out in '22, $4m in '23.
It's definitely not a great deal.
I know most people on here really like him, and think he's a damn good player. But I think that severly clouds their judgment when it comes to actually placing a fair market price for him.
We didn't get much value here. There's zero discount for paying early. And to put him right at the value of a player who just rushed for 1,540 yards at 5.1 a pop, with 16 TD's, who just played in Superbowl, is pretty absurd.
Mixon simply doesn't have the production to warrant this amount of money. Not to mention, paying running backs this much is usually not a good use of cap space.
To each their own though, I guess.
