03-10-2019, 12:57 PM
(03-10-2019, 11:48 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: i liked the article. Their is good talent to be had in FA. But getting a mega player for mega bucks is not the answer.
Agree. Unless you were just one game away from the Super Bowl last year and only have one hole in your roster. And even then it sometimes does not work out.
Every year there are free agents signed to huge contracts that fail to live up to them. One contract like that can screw up the entire roster.
In 2011 the Bengals rebuilt their defense by signing three new starters in free agency (Nate Clements, Manny Lawson, Thomas Howard). None of them were huge stars but they all had lots of NFL starts and decent production. In fact Clements had been one of those players to not live up to a huge free agent contract before the Bengals signed him for a more reasonable price.
Lawson and Howard are almost exactly the type of players we need now. Howard was 27 with 62 career starts and almost 400 tackles. Lawson was 26 with 56 starts including an impressive '09 season (6.5 sacks, 16 QB hits, 9 TFL). Both of them were very fast and athletic.
