12-15-2020, 11:14 PM
(12-14-2020, 07:41 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Agreed.
My only thought is the Bengals never intended to consider Finney for anything other than an emergency player and plans to cut him after the season, as there will be no dead cap in 2021 or 2022. Seattle needed/wanted to purge some cap to make room for Dunlap and CIN agreed to take him on for the rest of the year for the sake of getting Dunlap off the books.
If there was a thought he should be considered for beyond 2020, he should have been getting some playing time by now.
Pretty sure this is exactly it. Something to do with offset language in the CBA that I don't understand, or maybe there were some financial considerations in the trade that we're not privy to. But I'm certain Seattle needed to clear room to take on Dunlap, and us taking Finney was part of that.
