surprise Bengals standing pat with their team instead of trying to improve

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(10-30-2018, 04:18 PM)Catmandude123 Wrote: Guess there were no players who could help our team or is it Mikey doesn't want to spend any more of his 10 million cap space to improve his team. How in the sam hill did we have to have this miser as our owner???

I don't think the Bengals had any expectation of being a true contender this year and considered it as (hopefully) the last year in the rebuild. If that's the case, it could make sense that they didn't want to be aggressive at the trade deadline. Plus, we all know they overvalue their draft picks.

The Bengals also could, like every year, want to roll over remaining cap space to next year to help cover extensions. They have Dennard, Uzomah, Kroft, Eifert, Preston Brown, Hopkins, Redmond, MJ, Fisher, Ogbuehi, and Vinny Rey all hitting FA next year. They clearly won't (and shouldn't) keep probably even half of those guys, but they will have a lot of positions to replace and hopefully will bring in some outside replacements to fill those holes.