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(02-11-2020, 03:25 PM)Synric Wrote: I was gonna split the difference between Kwon Alexander's 13.5 and CJ Mosleys 17.5 and call it 15mil a year...

That is ALOT of money to a non premium postion. You could probably get Indy Guard Joe Haeg and Pats Linebacker Jamie Collins for roughly the same price. 

A non-premium position that the Bengals are incapable of filling. A ton of wasted resources going towards a lot of terrible production... Preston Brown, Nick Vigil, AJ Hawk, Carlos Dansby, etc, etc.

The weakest part of the D is by far the LBs, and if you improve them then you improve the DL and DBs at least a little bit because they can then focus on doing just their own job a bit more.

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Once you factor in the Dalton, Glenn, Kirkpatrick money, you're well up into $80m cap space. You could sign 5 players at $15m/yr and still be fine. The money isn't an issue. 

I'd throw cash at Conklin, Thuney (or Scherff), Littleton, AND Schobert. Even those four shouldn't be more than $60m/yr. The money is there, so spend it.

Two high quality LBs and the defense is fixed (unless the DC is just garbage).
Two high quality OL and the offense is at least much better. Protects Burrow in the passing game and should improve the run game for him. 

Then you can focus on getting Burrow a WR, a TE, and adding another CB to the mix with rounds 2, 3, and 4.

Gotta get your spending in while you have Burrow relatively cheap.