(03-17-2017, 10:42 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I'm not sure they will. They've brought in two veteran LBs so clearly they need one to replace Dansby. But I think they'll draft just one regardless of getting a veteran LB or not.

They have six LB spots. Burfict, Vigil, and VRey are guaranteed.
The other three right now are Maualuga, Flowers, and Dawson.

The Bengals likely will draft one LB that will compete to replace one of the latter three on the roster.
If a veteran is signed, I think Maualuga is cut and then a single rookie draft pick will compete with Flowers and Dawson. The best two get roster spots.

(03-17-2017, 11:29 AM)grampahol Wrote: As to the notion that they don't want to pay anyone unless it's 'team friendly' I have no problem with this. 
Just a show of hands, how many people when shopping for a house, car or anything really demand that they pay only top dollar? How many of you walk up to the salesman and say, 'Enough with giving me a bargain. I want to overpay for everything I buy! '
Personally I've never seen this happen and I suspect none of you have nor will you any time soon. 
Some people seem to look at a teams budget like their own personal piggy bank and they're shopping for chewing gum where prices are all set in stone. Player salaries vary greatly from player to player depending on experience, health, talent, incentives and so on. We really don't have access to every line of every contract every player signs. They go into every season never knowing if any player at any position will play 1 snap or every snap. Just because player x has played 7 seasons and has never had a serious injury doesn't mean there's a guarantee that he won't break his leg on the first play of the season. We don't know if they're going to have an injury free season or if 3/4 of the team is going to be on injured reserve after the first game. 
So by hanging on as much money as possible within certain parameters it makes perfect sense. Overpaying for question marks doesn't make sense. 
/rant
I suspect that even NE is eventually run up against the injury bug so bad they're going to finish in last place. In fact I hope they do it in spades and it goes on for several years.  

(03-10-2017, 10:30 AM)Okeana Wrote: per

http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Dre-plays-on-with-Bengals-Whats-next/a87a5caf-4f9d-4764-a06e-bc76b7801261

discussion

http://www.cincyjungle.com/2017/3/10/14877174/bengals-2-3-million-left-spend-free-agency



I can't understand how the front office is coming up with these numbers.  I'm not seeing the details on the Kirkpatrick deal yet, but even if we did eat 15 million in a cap hit for this year this still only accounts for 15 mil of 38-42 million of space they had.  I can understand if they want to allocate that money to Burfict and Eifert, but why not extend them now and eat as much cap this year so next year you can clear some of it off.

One thing the bengals really need to improve upon is learning when to move on from players to keep their stars.  Michael Johnson, Peko, Rey Mal all should be gone by this point.  Pacman is debatable, but I think its clear at this point we need that money and not an aging CB with off the field issues.

(03-17-2017, 04:14 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: This is complete horse shit. The Benagls have over 20 million in cap space for this year. Look at the site below. Its a real time cap space tracker for each team. 

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/

(03-17-2017, 04:14 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: This is complete horse shit. The Benagls have over 20 million in cap space for this year. Look at the site below. Its a real time cap space tracker for each team. 

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/

(03-17-2017, 04:17 PM)ochocincos Wrote: $25 million remaining. Take out ~$10 million that's reserved for the 11 draft picks, plus take out about $3-5 million reserved for injuries. You're looking at about $10 million left to spend.
I'm expecting, at this point, just a few million will be spent toward a serviceable non-starter or two (likely at LB), then the rest being reserved for extensions of upcoming 2018 FAs.

(03-17-2017, 03:41 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Comparing NFL free agency with buying a house isn't apples to apples.

The Bengals operate a business with revenue sharing where they get exactly 1/32 of the pie.

Also when buying a house...there isn't a salary cap for all houses sold.

The salary cap has risen from $120 million in 2012 to $167 million in 2017. The salary cap is a percentage of revenue so the Bengals are GUARANTEED a profit.

(03-17-2017, 05:15 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: It is also time to replace Rey. M so hopefully his cut creates 4 million or so in additional cap money