Trey Hendrickson Update

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(Yesterday, 10:00 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Remember, our functional cap space is gonna be around $9 mil less than whatever figure is bouncing around on OTC/spotrac. 

You have to count 53 instead of 51 (+$2 mil-ish), you have to count the practice squad (+$3-$4 mil), you have to count guys on IR (All, over $1 mil), and you have to remember Stewart and Knight are signed yet, so they are not top 51 atm (+$1-2 mil over replacement). 

Our REAL cap space is more like $22-$23. 

And remember, those rewoeked deals did not save us much, cap wise. Volson's cap hit went from $3.8 to $3.1. Moss's a little more savings, but he is still $3.1 as well, and I *think* hexwas right around $4 mil to start. 

Point being, we could have saved twice what we did by cutting one of them. And we could still net nearly $2.5 mil by cutting Volson. 

I agree that now, we are unlikely to cut either after the renegotiations, but it is just bad cap management to pay RB3-4 and OG 4, who are just barely aboce practice squad level, over $6 mil a year. 

It is even sillier when you draw a line in the sand with the best pass rushing DE in the league. Sure, in a perfect world, I'd like to keep everyone for better depth. But if I have to choose, I would need to think hard, or long. Pay Trey, move on from the overpriced, underperforming depth. 

Heck, if I could turn that Moss/Volson $$ into a reliable starter level player elsewhere (Hernandez, Risner, Scherff, Blackmon) I think that would have been money much better spent. Don't you? 

I would argue they could flip Volson to Dalton Risner with the same amount as money saved from cutting Volson and it'd be an upgrade for the starting OL, as I think Risner would be better than Patrick or Ford.
I gave Volson a benefit of the doubt his rookie year and partway through his sophomore year, but he's been basically the same dude throughout his 3 years now at this point.
Time to move on.

I too don't understand the purpose of keeping Moss and his 3.3 YPC. And before anyone says it was the OL, Chase Brown had an entire 1 YPC higher in the same offense.
But if there's one thing the Bengals like, it's familiarity.
They'd rather roll out there with someone who knows the offense/defense, team, and organization than take a chance on someone who doesn't.

At the end of the day though, if the goal is just to make space for Hendrickson new deal, they have the space to get one done. They just gotta negotiate the details.