Pratt Gone

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(Yesterday, 03:51 PM)2MinutesHate Wrote: The Bengals have been known to drag their feet when cutting a player.  Pratt didn't exactly  hide his displeasure here. Kind of makes me think it's the Bengals being petty and letting him sit while all the other free agents get signed and chew up most of the money that's available.  I wouldn't put anything past Mike Brown

Yea but if that's the case, it still hampers/hampered the Bengals to not have that freed up sooner and could have pursued other FAs earlier.
The only thing I can think of is the FO feels the roster is championship contender-worthy without Pratt today and the only things needed to improve the team were new coaches, a new true run-stuffing 1T, a new B/C tier starting RG, and some draft picks (which I would disagree with).

If we look at the new faces for the starters, the Bengals really are going to have just 3-5:
RG - Patrick
LG - Fairchild
NT - Slaton
SLB - Knight
Burks/Carter in 3-LB looks

Potentially just 2-3 if it ends up actually Volson and Ford winning the OG spots.
Will that be enough to confidently think the Bengals can get back to AFCCG/SB?