Bengals.com Hobson On Bengals After Start Of F/A

[wolfkaosaun]

(03-10-2017, 07:00 AM)BonnieBengal Wrote: This is directly from Hobson's article on the front page entitled "Dre plays on with Bengals.  What's next."

"With Kirkpatrick counting about $10 million against the cap this year and wide receiver Brandon LaFell another $5 million, the Bengals only have about $2-3 million for another deal to fit in under the $16-18 million they have budgeted to spend.

That could be running back Rex Burkhead or a linebacker or an offensive lineman out on the market. But anything beyond that and they’ll probably have to start cutting some players. And they won’t sign any unrestricted free agents to avoid harming their haul of compensatory draft picks for 2018. They believe they walked out of Thursday with a third-rounder for Zeitler and a fifth-rounder for Whitworth."

Right now I despise this front office with all of my being.  What's most important are 3rd and 5th round comp picks!!!!!!!

Fun fact: The Bengals still have $27 million left to use for this free agency.

If they were to cut Maualuga and Pacman, that would add another $10 million right there.

Pacman is making the 4th most on this roster. 4th. Most.

Rey Maualuga is making more than 4 of our 5 starting offensive lineman.

Kevin Zeitler is making about $12 million a year. So that puts us at $15 million if we don't cut anyone. Okay.

Whitworth is making $9 million this year. So that would put us at $6 million. Cut those 2 players, we're back at $16 million.

Or you just sign Whitworth, and we're at that $16 million.