Too old, too expensive for us

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(Yesterday, 01:29 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: There's a loonnnggg list of just mistakes the Brown family has made regarding interior O and D linemen retention back thru the years. Don't wanna pay them. And I remember LL posting a big read on it and how they spent just as much if not more money trying to put a band-aid on it for years to come. Not to mention hurt the team.

It was high end money when they balked. But year or two down the road it was like league average. But they don't learn.

It was about trying to replace JJo at CB. Man was that a brutal list of FAs and high draft picks.

I am all aboard bashing the Bengals FO, but I actually with bfine on this. I said it when it happened and I still believe it now... the Browns vastly overpaid Zeitler by making him the highest paid G in the league. A contract that neither the Browns nor the Giants wanted to see through with him. 

Remember nobody talked a ton about him in the 7 years between leaving us and this year. If I remember correctly, before this year his highest rated season at PFF was with us. So he spent 7 straight years being worse than he was with us, which was good but not great.

Now I think he would have been a good signing when the Ravens signed him, but there is a reason that after the Browns megadeal he had to sign for nearly half the annual value.