Hobson’s annual disappointment cap article

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(03-09-2022, 12:40 PM)leonardfan40 Wrote: Exactly, we have young stars on rookie contracts so we should field the best team possible these next few years and not go crazy worrying how we’ll keep a guy 4+ seasons from now. It’s hard to win a super bowl. You can’t pass up an opportunity like this because you’re worried about something so far off you can’t possibly know what situation we’ll be in. Burrow could get injured and never play again before it comes time to re-sign him.

We did the “try to be competitive forever” thing with Dalton and Green. It did not work. I’d much rather go all in for a SB ring now even if it means we have to blow things up 5 years from now and rebuild. You just have to keep burrow if it comes to that and you can rebuild and have another window 2-3 years later. Don’t waste his whole career because you’re afraid of being bad someday.

Exactly.

When Burrow is making $50 million a year, it's going to put a premium on our drafting and being able to get production out of rookies and young guys...as we won't be able to keep everyone.

When we started losing Jones, Sanu, Zeitler, etc...that was the beginning of the end of those Bengals teams competing.

Part of this model, will likely be getting good at getting production from low paid WR's and RB's. Teams that win the SB, generally don't have leading rushers that make more than $2 million a year. And you generally don't see 2-3 high paid WR's. With an elite QB, you can get production from lesser WR's.

Now offensive line seems to be a big thing. As does a defensive line.