Dez Bryant?

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(04-13-2018, 11:22 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Why does it HAVE to be "X player or lose all your good players in FA" anytime someone decent gets cut?

In 2018, Kirkpatrick is making $9.6m against the cap. Dennard is $8.5m, and one of those two will likely not be with the Bengals in 2019 what with Will Jack.
Dunlap is $7.3m against the cap in 2018. Atkins is $9.5m

$9.5m+$7.3m+$9m (the average between Kirkpatrick and Dennard) = $25.8m, which is enough to sign both Dunlap and Atkins.

That's not even touching upon the fact that any WR signing would almost certainly mean LaFell getting cut, which is $4m free right there.


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Please stop trying to make any possible addition be an automatic choice of that player or *insert your favorite players with FA in 1-3 years here*... that's some Hobson stuff.

The Bengals right now have $63.6m in cap space in 2019, and that's if the cap doesn't rise at all (it's been rising like ~$10m/yr) and if the Bengals roll over nothing.

They can afford the future commitment of Bryant, Atkins, and Dunlap if they so chose to.

I did it because the Bengals already said they “overspent” in FA (even though they have $18 mill in cap space) and have said extending Atkins and Dunlap were a high priority. Typically, the Bengals will use the funds reserved the current year for extensions to save cost on the following years, so signing Dez could mean lack of current funds to extend either Atkins or Dunlap.


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