01-19-2017, 02:52 PM
(01-19-2017, 02:45 PM)grampahol Wrote: No guarantees Zietler will sign here or elsewhere. For all we know he might demand some utterly absurd figure in which they should let him walk, but we don't know that yet. If both Z and W walk we're in deep trouble although I don't anticipate that scenario. It's real easy to sit and say just pay so and so whatever they want, but sometimes it goes to the absurd where it no longer makes any sense at all to keep upping the ante.. It can become like an ebay auction where you bid on a $10 item and somehow you find yourself bidding $50 for an item you can just as easily pick up at Walmart for $9. Some of this is merely perceived value and not actual value. There are wants and there is reality. They don't always mesh.
Zeitler will want what DeCastro got. That was $11 million a year. That's the going rate. Drafted the same year. About the same skill level.
When we say that if a player demands X let them walk...we're really rooting for Mike Browns wallet...not the Bengals.
To build a good team...you have to retain your good players. If a player demands $15 million and other teams will only pay them $8 million, then they'd sign for closer to $8 million here. It's supply and demand.
