Hobson - only $15 million of cap to work with?

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(02-28-2017, 09:46 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Sorry if this has already been explained but I am not going to read 8 pages of whining and crying to find out.

Mike Brown does not put unspent cap space into his pocket like some other owners.  Instead he rolls it over.

Each of the last two years the bengals have spoent ABOVE the league salary cap.  The were able to do this because of the money rolled over.  

Bengals are not ebing cheap.  The last two years they have been spending MORE than most other teams in the league on player salaries.

But if they only do spend about $15 million on this year's FA, they will be under the cap.
The only way the Bengals could spend over the salary cap and still only pay $15 million in FA this year is to put a great deal of the remaining money toward extending the upcoming 2018 FAs.
That list is headed by Eifert and Burfict. This list also has players like Jeremy Hill and Russell Bodine, but IMO those players are not worth extending. It also should not cost $15 million in cap space to extend both Eifert and Burfict.