02-11-2019, 09:24 PM
(02-11-2019, 08:36 PM)t3r3e3 Wrote: The bottom line is playing cheapskate, letting quality contributors walk to hoard comp picks has been a fool’s errand.
The bottom line is that at the same time you are calling the Bengals "cheapskates" for letting Whit, Nelson, and Zeitler walk the team was spending OVER the league salary cap on other players.
You can't say the Bengals are the worst for letting good players walk while at the same time claiming there are other good players leaving other teams in free agency. If no other teams are letting good players leave then where are the good free agents coming from?
I have said many times that I wished the Bengals had been more aggressive at times in free agency, so I am not blindly defending their free agent policy. But at the same time I realize how the NFL works. Many teams let good players leave in free agency, and often times it is for monetary reasons. You almost never see a team let top free agent walk just so they can spend the same amount on a new free agent from another team to replace him.
