03-05-2016, 05:30 PM
Jim, why don't we see other teams across the league budgeting huge chunks of cap space towards things like the rookie pool, injury settlements, the offseason program, the practice squad, etc.?
Banner said each team allots $6-7 million to the rookie pool. It's the injury pool and carry over that changes team to team. Injury pool is totally private - a team would have to release that info to the media. The practice squad is standard and collectively bargained for every team - it's just over $100K per player x 10 players. There is a very, very small percentage of teams that will offer a single player a little more to sign to their squad over another. Offseason program is individual. The Bengals work those into bonuses because while not "technically" guaranteed, they kind of are. Every player is going to get that workout bonus.
The carryover is uniform , the NFLPA releases that. Also varies team to team. Seattle only rolled over $11K to use on free agents / extensions mocked up in 2015. Bengals always roll over a big amount, from what I understand.
t Dre, Zeitler, Gio, Whit, Burkhead and Shawn Williams are all going to be heading into the 2017 season as free agents as it is. Look for Eifert to be the team's primary target for an extension. Gio, Zietler, Williams and Kirkpatrick will be like Marvin Jones, George Iloka, Adam Jones and Sanu are this year.
Sorry about Hill - forgot he's a year behind Gio. They want to extend Eifert. He's priority one. But I go by past history + Eifert's injury history and to me, I think they just pick up the option and try to extend him like they did Green in two years. And they want to extend a couple of those guys - I have been told that directly. Now, does a deal get done? Not necessarily. But what works in their favor is this - there is no A.J. Green to get done. Green's deal had to be done before anyone else, and it went to their deadline of week 1. Now, I don't know where Whit's extension money came from -- maybe it was some leftover from the carry over, maybe it was pulled from the injury pool .. it's not their responsibility to tell us and frankly no one would know but the Bengals. But I can try and find out.
I get you Royle - chalk it up to some Twitter mention fatigue :-)
Banner said each team allots $6-7 million to the rookie pool. It's the injury pool and carry over that changes team to team. Injury pool is totally private - a team would have to release that info to the media. The practice squad is standard and collectively bargained for every team - it's just over $100K per player x 10 players. There is a very, very small percentage of teams that will offer a single player a little more to sign to their squad over another. Offseason program is individual. The Bengals work those into bonuses because while not "technically" guaranteed, they kind of are. Every player is going to get that workout bonus.
The carryover is uniform , the NFLPA releases that. Also varies team to team. Seattle only rolled over $11K to use on free agents / extensions mocked up in 2015. Bengals always roll over a big amount, from what I understand.
t Dre, Zeitler, Gio, Whit, Burkhead and Shawn Williams are all going to be heading into the 2017 season as free agents as it is. Look for Eifert to be the team's primary target for an extension. Gio, Zietler, Williams and Kirkpatrick will be like Marvin Jones, George Iloka, Adam Jones and Sanu are this year.
Sorry about Hill - forgot he's a year behind Gio. They want to extend Eifert. He's priority one. But I go by past history + Eifert's injury history and to me, I think they just pick up the option and try to extend him like they did Green in two years. And they want to extend a couple of those guys - I have been told that directly. Now, does a deal get done? Not necessarily. But what works in their favor is this - there is no A.J. Green to get done. Green's deal had to be done before anyone else, and it went to their deadline of week 1. Now, I don't know where Whit's extension money came from -- maybe it was some leftover from the carry over, maybe it was pulled from the injury pool .. it's not their responsibility to tell us and frankly no one would know but the Bengals. But I can try and find out.
I get you Royle - chalk it up to some Twitter mention fatigue :-)
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