03-09-2016, 09:14 PM
(03-09-2016, 08:47 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: He is a year older. And was worse last year than at any point in his career.
They are not rookies any more. Ogbuehi is healthy and got experience, Fisher got his feet wet too. Boling is locked in long term and can play tackle. Whit signed back.
Better question is why is he back? If we are playing against anyone other than a super scrub team. And Winston is taking meaningful snaps against a halfway decent defender. We are in a really bad spot. Not to mention we gave him over a million bucks. Anything over vet minimum is far too much.
Sure its cool to see a real life Shrek standing on the sidelines. But the fact he takes up a roster spot and costs us money that could have gone to extending Zeitler and or bringing Andre back kills all of that.
You don't think it makes sense to keep a veteran presence around when you're transitioning to an unproven tackle who is coming off an injury?
We paid him 1.09 million. The vet minimum for a 10 year veteran in 2016 is $985,000. You're complaining about 100k?
https://www.spotrac.com/blog/nfl-minimum-salaries-for-2015-and-the-veteran-cap-benefit-rule/
If you want to extend Zeitler, then you should be happy we signed Winston over Andre. Andre would cost 6+ million per. Not only that, you'd be keeping Ogbuehi on the bench.
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