***Official Bengals Free Agency Thread***

[Benton]

(03-16-2021, 12:06 PM)jj22 Wrote: I don't know about them overestimating their cap against the league. Teams have always been able to somehow do more with only having 10 million in cap space vs the Bengals who had 30+ million in cap space.


We've always wondered how teams supposedly in cap trouble has been able to sign more high paid players then the Bengals who seem to have good cap room. It's as if they don't set aside 50% of the cap for injuries/draft/roll over (and all the other excuses Hobs uses to bring Bengals cap space down from 41 to 20million.

There are roll over factors in there, in addition to cuts.

Generally, the talk before fa is 'x team has y dollars.' then some team goes above y dollars, but the next day makes cuts to make it happen. If you've got $10 million for fa, spend $12 million, you can still make cuts to get your number down.

I think most of the time we look at other teams and say 'how did they outspend us' but we don't look at the follow-up cuts