Are Rankins and Stone the worst FA haul of all time seeing the money we gave them?

[SunsetBengal]

(Yesterday, 10:09 AM)CJD Wrote: Can you believe we passed on resigning Reader (2 years, 22 million with Detroit), someone we knew was good in our defense, to sign Rankins (2 years, 24.5 million with us), who was an average player when he wasn't playing the Bengals?

It almost defies belief that they would make such a bad "swap"

It was a massive shock to see Reader not re-signed. I think that the FO must have just made him an embarrassingly low offer, and when Detroit made him a fair offer he said "screw you guys" to the Bengals FO. How the Bengals came to the idea that he might sign a ridiculously low deal, possibly loaded with performance escalators given he was coming off of a second quad tear, after he had already shown the ability to recover and play well after the same serious injury previously is a bit of a head scratcher. Whatever the truth of that situation we don't know and are only to speculate. However what we do know is that the FO was obviously caught completely off guard, as they had taken no actions to sign a different NT previous to Reader signing with Detroit. They were then left holding their jocks, so to speak, as all of the quality NTs were signed by then.

Sheldon Rankins was a panic signing, and like most decisions not properly thought out, it has proven to be a waste.