Bengals going in the wrong direction?

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(03-10-2017, 05:23 PM)Bengal Dude Wrote: I was reading the article about what went wrong with the Zeitler negotiations. It sounds like the Bengals were offering a little more than what Boling got. Z thought it was low and decided against a deal so they picked up his 5th year option. They started negotiations again with a little more money and DeCastro's deal put a stop to that. The Bengals simply don't value guards.


The issue I have is that they took a 1st round guard and never planned on giving him a deal that great guards get. I don't want to see this team ever draft a 1st round guard ever again. If they do, then we can expect him to leave in 5 years. If he signs an extension in the Bengals price range, then that means he probably isn't playing like a 1st rounder. It's a joke.

Thanks for the insight on that deal....so it stands to reason that if they had offered him 9-10 mil when the deal COULD have, and should have been done, this fiasco never happens.  

That's the same issues I have with all of this.  It's a sick, cruel joke.