Jonah Williams knee

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(02-17-2023, 11:15 PM)casear2727 Wrote: I wish the meathead would get off twitter and avoid the media.

Here is my point though;

Imagine our team signs a back up CB to play CB4 for only $1M.  And that season this CB4 is forced to play CB2 all season, and does it well enough that he starts every game and helps the team to the Super Bowl.

The next season, the CB4 gets $3M and is projected to be CB2 until the hot rookie can take over. So this guy is a CB4 in waiting.  But the rookie gets hurt, so he plays CB2, then the CB1 goes down for the season, and our guy is now forced to play CB1, which he does for an unprecedented 10 straight wins all the way to the AFC title game.

We payed this guy $4M to play 2,343 snaps at the 2nd most difficult position and that resulted in a record of 22 & 11, 5 playoff wins, 2 division championships, 1 AFC championship, 1 AFC runner-up, and a Super Bowl appearance.  If his name wasn't Apple (and all that comes with it) we would absolutely love the guy.

$4M for all of that, maybe it won't be too difficult to find a guy to match that production at that low of a cost... but I'm skeptical we can. 

I don't like his mouth, but I like his price tag and he's been solid.

I'm not disagreeing with any of that...but I also don't think Eli will be the only reasonably priced option to CB4 either. I think if the Bengals can find another corner they like in free agency, they will go that route and move on from Eli.