03-17-2020, 04:27 PM
(03-17-2020, 04:14 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: hard to compete with no income tax ask MJ93 While bengals offer fair market deals we rarely try and overpay for players. We lost this bidding war.. OR Schobert just choose Jacksonville. Its not always about that 1 to 2 million sometimes there are other factors.
Like maybe he likes trips to london
I mean, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN - which seems like a credible source - says we just weren't willing to match Jacksonville's offer...which implies that he would've signed if we'd matched. Either way, our offer wasn't competitive. We always seem to be the team who isn't willing to slightly overpay...which normally isn't a terrible thing, but when you are sitting on this much cap space, that would be the time to not nickel and dime it.
Whatever though. I'm sure all will be fine, just as it has for the last 30 years. Since free agency was implemented.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
