05-01-2019, 02:49 PM
(05-01-2019, 01:49 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I am not going to defend our free agency activity this year, butI still want to point out a flaw in the logic a lot of people use.
Many fans act like every team in the league upgrades in free agency, but that just is not true. Every good free agent added by a team is a loss to another team. Too many fans just look at additions and ignore losses. A team can sign a couple of expensive free agents, but if they also lose a couple they are not improving their roster.
When you look at free agency across the entire league it is a zero net sum gain. For every addition there is a subtraction. So you can not ignore our signings of Brown and Dennard. Preventing a loss of talent is important and counts as a free agent move.
Name one person who said that.
What people complain about is having $50 million at the start of free agency and walking away with no real upgrades. Teams that are coming off of a losing season (especially 3 straight) with $50 million to spend, tend to be way more active than the Bengals. No one says that all 32 teams upgrade in free agency every year.
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