Scratch LT off the office the offseason need list

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(01-01-2018, 10:24 PM)Synric Wrote: They didn't LET Whitworth walk they offered him a nice 1 year contract Rams offered him a 3 year contract.

Why didn't they offer him more years? Well this coming offseason they have to resign Dennard and extend Geno and Dunlap...

The whole they have alot of cap space is an illusion.

Edit: Oops forgot a Tyler Kroft extention too. You don't even want to know everyone that's a free agent in 2020 that needs extended before the 2019 season...

If you don't use your franchise tag, you let them walk.

Your post reads like a Hobspin article. Assuming they extend Dennard (meh), Adam Jones had a $8m cap hit in 2017. That basically just swaps the two out as they won't extend Dennard, keep Kirkpatrick (they have to for now, too much dead money), AND keep Jones.

Either Atkins or Dunlap are going to be gone, likely both of them. Atkins is currently being paid as the 15th interior defender in the NFL. He's going to get an absurd payday somewhere if they don't franchise tag him. Atkins is making $10.6m/yr, and there's 3 DTs making $17m/yr+. I don't see Mike Brown giving Atkins $18m/yr.

Carlos Dunlap has been openly voicing his feelings on the mediocrity that is the Bengals. I can't see him wanting to re-up with the Bengals when they're seriously looking at bringing back Marvin. The franchise tag will be being used on Atkins, so he'll walk and get a big payday elsewhere. Only one of them will stay, and it'll likely only be due to franchise tag.

Not to mention your whole "they didn't sign Whitworth because they have to extend Atkins and Dunlap" is premised around the idea that you can't give a guy a 3 year deal, because 2 years later, people may need extensions? That's some Hobspin BS right there, man.

Tyler Kroft has a career 66 catches/625 yards (9.9 AVG)/8 TD in THREE YEARS. Not to mention Eifert had a $5m cap hit in 2017 that's coming off the books and there's no way on earth Kroft is worth more than $5m/yr. So you're clearing up space there, not losing it. Nice try.


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Of course this all is premised around your fantasy that the Bengals couldn't franchise tag Whitworth, or sign him for 3 years and cut him after 2 with only $1.66m in dead cap... JUST like the Rams could do on his current contract.

Hobspin fail. Don't be an enabler/apologist for this shitty-run franchise.

The Bengals go into an offseason with a ton of cap space, lose all their best FA, sign LaFell, A Smith, and Minter, and then cry poor.
The Steelers go into an offseason with half of the cap space, franchise tag Bell, extend Brown, re-sign their LT, extend Tuitt, and sign Haden.

F the Steelers, but also F the Bengals FO.