Great Article about NFL Free Agency Spending/Winning

[Essex Johnson]

(02-24-2017, 12:11 PM)bengals67 Wrote: what we consistently do is retain below average players who eat up cap space preventing us from keeping some of our better players and signing a truly high quality free agent or two each season.

why are Bodine, Ray M, Michael Johnson and Jones still on this team?

Once a player signs a contract with the Benagals , do any of them ever fear they might be cut if they under perform? No- because it never happens.

Broncos just cut their under performing tackle to have the money to sign Whit.

We woould never consider this.

These were not below average players when we signed them .... also Bodine if im not mistaken is on a rookie contract .. you are over generalizing.. as for cutting players..  I believe Hawk signed for two years and was cut after one year.. I believe Dansby is on a 2 year contract and could be cut this year.. so yes it does happen but it is rare.. but as a whole it has worked pretty good for the organization overall in the last 6 years in winning and being competitive in the NFL.. maybe they might have to shift their thinking as they are getting players more and more over 30 but they have signed some key players in their 20s to contracts.. so i would not say we are losing all our key pieces.