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(01-17-2018, 07:48 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Just two years after the Bryant fiasco they signed Nate Clements for over $5 million a year, and he worked out very well for us.  

Five million a year is not "top tier", but at least that should get a solid starter.

I really have no idea why the Bengals have not even attempted to sign a decent free agent since Clements.  We had a lot of success that year adding three starers on defense through free agency (Manny Lawson, Thomas Howard, and Clements).

It's mostly because they've been dropping big dollars on their own guys since about 2012. Boiling, Geno, Dunlap, Green, Dalton, Gio, Pacman, Williams, Iloka, Hewitt, Kirkpatrick, Burfict. Even Whitworth and Andre Smith got extentions in that time period.

I know fans don't like to hear that but it's true.

Forgot about guys like: Peko Johnson Gilberry...Didn't Leon Hall get a huge contract around then too?