Mike Hilton makes a statement

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(10-21-2021, 07:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This.

I think it will get worked out without using the tag.  Bengals really did not have a lot of motivation to give Bates an extension last year.  This year they can offer more than other teams and still come out way ahead because we had him for peanuts this year ($2.4M).  

Bates might be upset right now that he did not get an early extension, but that will all be forgotten if we make him one of the highest paid safeties in the league next year.

The thing I don't understand is how do we come out ahead this year if we didn't end up spending all of the savings we got by only paying him 2.4M this year?  The Brown family comes out ahead by saving money but the team isn't any better off if they just roll that savings to next years cap.  If we are consistently 10-15 million under the cap year after year so we can roll it into next year's cap number all that means is that every year we are spending 10-15 million less on the team than we could be spending.