05-24-2025, 06:27 PM
(05-24-2025, 05:55 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: What's wrong with that? All three were starters last year. It's not like they were making huge bucks. And we renegotiated and lowered the cap hit on all three right?
Moss and Stone have produced on other teams in the NFL and are proven players. Volson was a rookie starter and we have won a lot of games with him in the starting lineup.
We only had 6 draft picks and we had to empty the bank signing Chase and Tee. And our best pass rusher is a malcontent until he gets paid. Can't have it all. I think its solid roster building keeping some continuity. It would be nice to have Moss and Volson as depth and see Stone build on how he ended up playing down the stretch last year.
I cannot speak for others, but for me it isn't so much about keeping them in a vaccuum, particularly Stone. But more about keeping them around after bringing in FA's and draft picks at the same spots (Perine and Brooks + Patrick, Fairchild, and Rivers) AND totally whitfing on othercsreas of need (S, DT, CB, TE).
Especially since we did the same thing at LB with Pratt, bringing in Burks and Giles-Harris in FA, AND drafting Knight and Carter.
I'd much rather have had that Pratt/Moss/Volson money reinvested intobthe team, either via:
1) Getting Trey sorted
2) FA's at other positions of need
3) Better FA's at the spots we addressed
4) 2 & 3 then allow us to make different picks/fill more holes.
If we'd have signed Jenkins + Hernandez/Risner/Scherf we could have let Volson walk, Patrick + Ford + Kirkland/Stueber are your backups, and then we could have taken Watts in the 3rd. For example.
