01-06-2016, 09:44 PM
(01-05-2016, 12:39 AM)"Hammerstripes Wrote: I'll start with our own team. For those of you that know me from the old board, I am a very strong proponent of bringing back all of the players that we can and going into the draft with all 22 starters in place. We should have enough money to sign any of our guys that we want back. I am definitely letting the following guys walk at their current contract numbers:
Andre Smith
Lamur
I want the following guy back, but not at the current rate:
Leon Hall - love him, but not worth nearly $10 million
I would also do everything in my power to resign the rest of the guys. Continuity on the roster is key in the NFL. Granted, a fair amount of those guys will get cut in training camp.
It's hard to peg the draft at this point, but once it gets closer you can pretty much stack the board and take the BPA in almost every round.
As far as free agency goes, I would love to see a splash move, but it just doesn't fit the Bengals style."
I would like to see the bengals retain most of their players, there are a few I could see leaving and probably would get better contracts. If I look at safety I'm resigning Iloka before Nelson due to the fact that Iloka is younger more athletic and outside of the int's is better, but that's not to say I don't like Nelson, I think he's been awesome, he's just 33 and some team will overpay him because of the int numbers. As for LB we need to get better there, Burfict is about as good as you can get minus the bone head attitude at times, but the rest look to be avg at best, would love to see Dawson and Roach tear it up, but Rey M. still misses too many easy tackles and isn't good against the pass, Vinnie Rey is a solid backup and the rest stink> I could see us resigning Jones and Hall which I would like that as Hall could offer some flexibility with filling in part time as a safety and slot cb. I think we really should look to add at least 1 or 2 solid players in FA and then go BPA in the draft
