04-27-2017, 09:29 AM
(04-27-2017, 01:10 AM)Wyche Wrote: We weren't really blaming the season on Bodine....but saying Alex Mack was there for the taking.....again.....and we passed....again.....in favor of a turd. Now.....it's certainly not out of the realm of possiblity that Alex Mack never lets a NT blow right through a gap like Sherman burning the South and thus.....no play ever happens that causes Dalton to do that. He's at least somewhat culpable....and he did AJM no favors in Denver either.....who knows....a good FA here or there...and we had home field advantage wrapped up BEFORE Dalton goes down....or at least a bye. Maybe the run game is able to step up behind NFL caliber play at the C position and win at least another game to get a bye AFTER Dalton goes down. Bodine kills us with intense pressure up the gut. There is ZERO excuse for him to still be starting at C and then letting good players walk. That's ludicrous.....
Yep. That's the bottom line. The Bengals have cap space and go into a season KNOWING that they have a weak position that they could turn into a strength in free agency...yet they don't.
We had arguably a Top 3 roster that year.
Instead of doing that, they tout that the cap will remain clean for upcoming seasons. That's great! Now our 6 win team won't have to shed players in a salary cap purge.
The other side of the not spending is the fallacy that other teams go through 'cap hell'. I just don't see it. Maybe occasionally a team has to waive a few underperforming guys...but teams like the Steelers and Patriots did a lot of signing this offseason.
