***Official Bengals Free Agency Thread***

[BobJones4980]

(03-16-2021, 09:40 AM)spazz70 Wrote: No, what he said is the truth...for example the Chargers doing what the did with their OL....Honestly, If you were one of those players, money offered relatively the same, where would you go?  Southern California?  A 7 win team with the ROY?  If the Bengals over paid for even one of those guys then they could not afford the others (with their philosophy).  Players and agents, in general, do not want to come here and deal with this franchise.  It is a fact, proven over and over again, year in and year out.  Reader last year got the big payday and overpaid but because of his age he will/should be able to get another nice contract and go SB hunting if his play stays at or near top level.

I think your right in many aspects, players will likely choose locations like LA, Miami, NY and cities like that if the money and opportunity are similar. Also more likely to choose a team like KC because of the teams performance. 

BUT if we low-ball them then that's gonna make that choice alot easier. Whole lot of rumors that is what we did this off-season.

This isn't the NBA, we can't just hope that if we keep losing that we will draft the guy who turns it around for us. We saw what that gets us, Burrow on IR. We needed to overpay for a quality OLineman if that's what it took but we supposedly low balled a couple guys so we could say we tried.

An off-season of Thuney and another solid mid tier OG along with drafting Sewell would have set this offense up for years with Burrow. But instead we made a lateral move at best at DE and will probably take a WR at 5 just to rub salt in the wound