11-07-2017, 03:29 AM
(11-06-2017, 05:38 PM)nickndfl Wrote: It doesn't make sense to pay OL big money in free agency unless it is an emergency, but if the Bengals draft some decent lineman and then retain then in their second contracts- that would be good for the team. The running game would open up and take some of the pressure off Red Ryder.
Free agency really isn't as outrageous as some claim. If you look up some of the contracts signed by linemen last year, very few were outrageous. Most got paid what their market value says they're worth, and some very decent (which would be a massive upgrade for us) linemen were signed for relative bargains.
Rebuilding the line completely through FA would be foolish, but attempting to build it exclusively through the draft would be equally foolish, if not more so.
Linemen sometimes need a season to develop. Frankly, we don't have time for that shit. It needs fixed asap. So they need to be active in FA to at least fill one of the FOUR problem spots.
There's no way we're getting four good linemen via the draft. We'll be lucky to get one or two.
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