09-16-2019, 12:35 PM
(09-16-2019, 12:16 PM)kevin Wrote: but Mike Brown has a history of going cheap on O Line.
No he doesn't. That is a message board myth. He has let THREE good o-linemen leave in free agency over a thirty year span.
-Steinbach got over-paid by the Browns, but what people don't remember is that 4 starters in that o-line were on expiring contracts and Mike paid the other three (Braham, Levi Jones, Willie Anderson). In fact Jones and Anderson were the HIGHEST PAID tackle duo in the league.
-Whitworth got two big contract extensions from the Bengals including one in 2011 when he still had 2 years left under contract. Mike Brown paid him well until he was 36. Many other teams would have made the same decision to move on from a player at that age.
-Zeitler got overpaid also.
Mike Brown paid Bobbie Williams well to keep him here. Mike Brown used the franchise tag to keep an OT here (Stacy Andrews), and just last year Mike traded for the 8th highest paid OT in the league.
The Bengals may not be the best at choosing O-linemen, but the problem is not Mike Brown being cheap with O-linemen. If every other team pays all their O-linemen then where do all of these high priced free agent O-linemen come from every year?
