Bengals cutting Iloka

[jwayne]

(08-20-2018, 05:55 PM)shanebo Wrote: It's never purely a financial decision, but there was definitely some financial motivation.  Iloka was due to make $5.3 mil this year, and he's simply not worth that.  That's why they couldn't trade him -- no one was giving them an asset to pay him $5-6 mil each of the next two years (or whatever he had left on his contract).  What I don't understand is why they didn't try to renegotiate the contract.  Would he take $1-2 mil over the next two or three years?  That wouldn't be a bad deal ...  

I don't think they would've cut Iloka if they hadn't drafted Bates.  They apparently figured they could get equal burn out of Bates, based on his performance thus far, at a much cheaper price.  I don't necessarily have a problem with it if they use the saved money to re-sign Geno and Dunlap, or to sign Eric Reid.  But we won't know if it's a bad move until we see what Iloka and Bates do going forward.  If Iloka signs with Seattle or NE and makes the pro bowl, I'll be pissed ...

 Agree that MJ isn't worth his contract, Williams either.  Do we not have a replacement for them?  As many DEs as we've drafted over the past few years, I hope we'd be able to replace MJ at least ...