Bengals Are The SMARTEST Team In the AFC ???

[CJD]

The Bengals are very responsible with their management of the salary cap and dead cap space. They don't sign contracts that they don't have at least a 90% assurance will be played out in their entirety or else structure them such that the last year or two of a contract has little or no dead cap if the player were to be cut.

They don't dabble much in void contracts or converting annual salary cap numbers into bonuses that can be spread out across multiple years to back load contracts with the intention of competing now and dealing with the consequences later.

These are generally accepted facts and admirable on an objective scale.

But I sure wish they'd bend their rules every once in a while just to get that impact player that might push us over the edge.