05-31-2019, 08:53 AM
(05-31-2019, 08:32 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: We can have our cake and eat it to. All we have to do is play cap games like everybody else in the league. As we stand right now we should be able to extend Boyd and AJ and have our normal injury cushion.
People are saying we would have to choose between extending them or McCoy. We can do both. Geno has a 8 mil base salary. Dunlap has a 3 mil base salary. Do like every other NFL team when they need to make room. Convert base salary into a signing bonus. Wham bam there is a big chunk of new 2019 money to spend.
Mike Brown's way of managing the cap is to resign players with the guaranteed money up front so he never enters the next season with a deficit. This works well for the Bengals bottom line every year but doesn't bode well for acquiring FA players that will cause his plans to fail. The Bengal's way will only work if they kill the draft a few years in a row.