DL worth Top 15 selection?

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(11-04-2020, 03:50 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: The Bengals are in line to have the 6th most cap space in the NFL in the 2021 offseason. If they don't have enough, nobody does.

And even then that's assuming they don't cut any of their MANY cut candidates...

Bobby Hart: $5.9m cap savings (Assuming the coaching staff gets it's head out of it's ass.)
CJ Uzomah: $5.25m cap savings (Mediocre backup TE coming off torn achilles, real easy decision.)
Giovani Bernard: $4.1m cap savings (Mixon is a $10.7m cap hit in 2021... can't waste ~$15.5m on 2 RBs while leading in pass attempts.)
Vonn Bell: $3.5m cap savings (What a letdown.)
BJ Finney: $3.5m cap savings (Was just a throw-in to balance out money for Dunlap deal, probably would be gone if not for all the injuries.)
XSF: $2.5m cap savings (Like him as a backup, but it could offset the salary increase for adding a good G.)
Billy Price: $2.1m cap savings (Unnecessary with Spain as the IOL backup)

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If your gut is right and they stick with that OL, be prepared for another losing season. 

I don't think Taylor cares if they *need* to throw or not, they're still going to throw. Even when they have a lead and the run game is working, they're still throwing. Seems to be just what Taylor is as a playcaller. 

Yes, I know all of this already.
And you hit it on the head, hardly any team will have much cap space because the cap is expected to drop $25 mill from this year.

So we'll see one of 3 scenarios:
1) Teams will pick and choose fewer key players to give big contracts about the same value as where their peers are (e.g. WJ3 is Waynes' level, so he could get paid $14 mill a year)
2) Most FAs will sign cheaper due to the league-wide cap reduction
3) Contracts could become more backloaded to account for a cheaper cap now and increase the cap hit in the following year(s) with the expectation the cap increases again.