03-14-2021, 06:30 PM
(03-14-2021, 03:56 PM)BengalFanInNJ Wrote: He's wrong in terms of how much money the Bengals have under the cap.
He MAY NOT be wrong in terms of what they'll spend.
Bingo. Hobspin's job is to take our already low expectations and beat them into the ground with his fuzzy math.
He will always say the cap space is lower than it is, and he'll always exaggerate how much we have to spend on made up stuff like rookie salaries, retaining our own and the dreaded "injury buffer".
As if other teams with less cap space don't have to account for the same things, yet are usually more active than we are in free agency.
He's always wrong (low) in much space we have, but he's almost always correct that we won't spend much. He's basically there to lower expectations so that fans aren't surprised when the Bengals don't spend, and he conditions many fans to think it's because the Bengals are "doing the right thing", when it's really about them being cheap.
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