Ben Cleveland

[SunsetBengal]

(10-17-2020, 11:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Extending Zeitler at that price would have been a huge mistake. 

I didn't like the idea of it then and even with the benefit of hindsight I wouldn't like it now. Of course I wish the Bengals had actually spent some proper money on a different interior lineman instead rather than just roll with Jordan/Price/XSF/Miller/Redmond, but Zeitler was a good player who was made the highest paid guard in the NFL. 

It's not a recipe for success to pay merely good players as if they're HoFers.

The point of my post wasn't to dissect the Bengals cap strategy at the time of allowing Zeitler to walk, but more to point out that the last two times that they went big on OG in the draft, they chose well and allowed each of them to leave in free agency, thus leaving gaping holes in their absence each time.