Too old, too expensive for us

[*bengalfan74*]

(Yesterday, 01:58 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 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.

Thanks

I get it with Zeitler and how he wasn't worth the top dawg money he wanted. Still, the Bengals F.O. is notorious in not wanting to pay lineman upper 1/3 money back thru the years. And many other positions/players.

And it has hurt us....sometimes very badly.