Bengals working out Freeney

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(06-16-2016, 01:23 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Bengals seemed interested...  Now we don't know what his side is asking or what we are offering in terms of length or amount.

There is a whole month to go before Training camp.   freeney will make up his mind by then.

As far as his quote hes just talking the NFL in general.

the same token you say give up on hunt/ clark for a 1 year rental... then hunt/clark are gone and so is the one year rental next year.  there is a risk there and is something that should be considered... We know hunt was a project going in and he keeps getting praise every year but also has been hurt most of it.  Clark I think has been more buried than anything but I don't get to see practices.

There is pros and cons to both sides.  Every year its a gamble that a guy like freeney can still compete at that level the he did the last year.

The risk from my perspective would be any guaranteed money given to Freeney to come in and compete against two players who have not demonstrated a lot so far.  Conversely there is a risk in letting a proven pass rusher walk while you wait for two players to show something they have not really hinted at so far.

You would not have to let go of both players.  You would keep one and would have training camp to determine which 2 players are going to produce the most for you.

I agree that Freeney's remarks were not specifically targeted at the Bengals, but his point is valid.  Teams in general are sometimes overly committed to being right about their pick rather than keeping/ playing the player(s) that performs the best.   To me when you have a team close enough to being a Super Bowl roster you risk the up front money on someone who performed really well in a capacity that did not exist on our roster last year to our detriment at the end of close games.

If Hunt has truly turned it around and Clark has just been buried they can compete against one another to decide which one of them backs up MJ.  The other may get picked up by another team while we round out our front 7 with a pass rushing presence we have not had opposite Dunlap.