11-25-2017, 01:41 PM
Teams have been throwing money at men-to-bad TEs all willy-nilly recently.
Charles Clay: $7.6m/yr
Dwayne Allen: $7.35m/yr
CJ Fiedorowicz: $7.17m/yr
Martellus Bennett: $7m/yr
Jermaine Gresham: $7m/yr
Vance McDonald: $6.55m/yr
Jack Doyle: $6.3m/yr
Julius Thomas: $6.1m/yr
Dion Sims: $6m/yr
That doesn't mean I want the Bengals to re-sign Eifert. The dude can't stay healthy, and it's nice to say "make it incentive laden!" but in reality, all that does is save the owner money, not actually improve the team. Say Eifert signs a contract of essentially $500k per game played, or $8m/yr. The Bengals have to leave open $8m of cap space then.. so even if he gets hurt during Game 2 and goes on the IR... sure Mike Brown saves $7m, but that $7m isn't going to help the team because free agency is already over, so it'll either be pocketed or rolled over for eternity. Meanwhile you're stuck with your #2 and #3 TEs playing way more than you'd like.
I'd rather they just use that $8m outright to improve the team with more reliable players, and draft a TE or throw a pile of cash at Jimmy Graham.
Charles Clay: $7.6m/yr
Dwayne Allen: $7.35m/yr
CJ Fiedorowicz: $7.17m/yr
Martellus Bennett: $7m/yr
Jermaine Gresham: $7m/yr
Vance McDonald: $6.55m/yr
Jack Doyle: $6.3m/yr
Julius Thomas: $6.1m/yr
Dion Sims: $6m/yr
That doesn't mean I want the Bengals to re-sign Eifert. The dude can't stay healthy, and it's nice to say "make it incentive laden!" but in reality, all that does is save the owner money, not actually improve the team. Say Eifert signs a contract of essentially $500k per game played, or $8m/yr. The Bengals have to leave open $8m of cap space then.. so even if he gets hurt during Game 2 and goes on the IR... sure Mike Brown saves $7m, but that $7m isn't going to help the team because free agency is already over, so it'll either be pocketed or rolled over for eternity. Meanwhile you're stuck with your #2 and #3 TEs playing way more than you'd like.
I'd rather they just use that $8m outright to improve the team with more reliable players, and draft a TE or throw a pile of cash at Jimmy Graham.
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