Geno Stone takes pay cut

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(Yesterday, 01:15 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Bengals are not the FO that lacks effeciency many fans perceive them to be.

Geno by his own admission was upset with how he played in 2024, as he said esepecially the first half of 2024. He also said it was ony his fault so to me I know words, but ecouraging words because not easy to admit your poor play is your fault.

It also aappears they are trying to create cap space fo 2025, they also restructured Moss so between the two an extra 3 million.

I hope the first priority is to extend Trey through 2027 with a fair deal. Then, would like either a vet CB or vet OG.

Yes they are. Their "efficiency" is absolutely terrible. They could have signed Chase, Tee and Trey to much less money over the last 2-3 years. They've ended up having to pay many millions more because they wanted to haggle as the market price rose. With even a little commone sense, forget about foresight, they could have all of them under contract right now, paying them less annually while having more cap space. 

Now that they're under contract (i believe Trey will be soon), in 2-3 years, their current deals will look like bargains and i'm sure many (some?) will come running to proclaim how smart the Bengals FO is for having players already under contract while the market is skyrocketing. Only, they'll forget how much more they could have saved if they had simply done it earlier. 

Now, if you want to talk about their M.O., then i can agree. They have changed the way they operate over the last 5 years, with improvements in different areas. They still lag behind the "better" franchises in some ways, but they've gotten better with things like RoH, improvements to the stadium and practice area and the improvements to the locker room and weight room, etc.