Breaking: Whit to Rams

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(03-10-2017, 01:25 AM)Whatever Wrote: Personally, they totally botched it so far with Og.  He should have spent the whole 1st year on IR rehabbing and gaining strength instead of being thrown out there in heavy sets at the end of the year, then they switched him to RT ad threw him out there as the starter despite not getting much of a TC.  Kid came from a spread offense, which has a steeper learning curve going to the pros, had to rehab a major injury that takes two years to fully come back from, needed to gain strength to hold up, and has to learn 3 positions because they are hxll bent on trotting him out there before he's ready.  I'm not surprised the kid looked like shxt.  

They tried to extend Zeitler last year,iirc, and couldn't agree to terms.  They weren't in a good bargaining position because the 5th year option was already paying him $8.5 mill, which is close to top G money, and that was enough financial security for him to roll the dice and test the market if the Bengals didn't offer him something crazy.  He seemed pretty determined to get every cent he could, and that's exactly what he did.  The fact that they didn't even offer him a deal this offseason makes it sound like they were far apart, and it's not like the Bengals could logically go down from the $8.5 mill option number.

With Whit, I honestly believe they misjudged his loyalty to the club.  They had given him three contract extensions during his time here despite the fact he was a largely unheralded player.  I think they felt that a contender may come after him, but they would come close and he would give them the hometown discount out of team loyalty.  I think some shxt team backing up the Brinks truck took them completely off guard, as did the fact that he took it.  They probably should have seen that he was more mercenary in nature back when he was complaining about his contract in the media a couple of years back.

......but the cap goes up every year....Zeitler at 10 mil would be a bargain as early as next year.  They totally botched that.....and wasted a first round pick from the Palmer deal and stupidly overpaid the other player from that deal.