Interesting article on Bengals offseason moves

[WeezyBengal]

This sounds like a lot of copium for letting Bates walk. Hobson HAD to have written this article.

My favorite line is this:

"Even if Bates continues to play at an All-Pro level, the Bengals will be content with their decision not to pay a safety $16 million a year. Of the 17 highest-paid safeties in the league in 2023, only four were employed by playoff teams."

I mean, trying to draw a parallel between paying one position (especially safety) and overall team success is pretty dumb. A lot of the highest paid safeties are just on bad teams.

I also love this line:

"Of the 13 former Bengals who left to sign one-year contracts elsewhere, nine never finished that season, with several failing to even make the 53-man roster.
Some of the names included on that list are Kevin Minter, Jake Fisher, Shawn Williams, Alex Erickson, John Ross, Auden Tate, and Darius Phillips.
And of the four who played their new one-year deals to fruition, none left the Bengals bathed in regret for letting them leave — A.J. Green (Arizona), Mackensie Alexander (Minnesota), Cedric Ogbuehi (Jacksonville), and Jeremy Hill (New England)."

I mean these guys suck. I love how we are flipping it around from "Bengals drafted terrible players" to "Bengals were so smart not to re-sign said bad players".

Sorry, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today - I just get tired of the Hobson rhetoric.