Scratch LT off the office the offseason need list

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(01-01-2018, 11:20 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 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.

Tackle franchise tag is over 14 mil I believe the Bengals only have 12 mil cap space for the 2017. They offered Whit all the under thr cap money they had for 2017 he turned it down for a 3 year deal which would would NOT have given the Bengals the option of resigning Geno and Dunlap.

Eifert made 5mil a year but a top 12 pick will make the same actually they will make more in 2018. Rookies will be under the cap too.

So they don't extend kroft? He's making what less than a mil now? If extended he makes what 4mil a year?

Your whole premise is based on the Bengals NOT resigning anyone and not giving them raises. 


Sorry but you are thinking in terms of 1 over all season it doesn't work like that.

Edit: As for defending the FO I'm not. They should have EXTENDED Whitworth 1 year before the 2016 season. They didn't because they had two young tacklws they drafted the year before who had yet to take a snap. It's always easier to looks back at mistakes than guess what which choice will be a mistake going foward.