01-02-2018, 12:01 AM
(01-01-2018, 11:52 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yes, and that is because after they let Whitworth walk, they wasted a ton of money overpaying Kirkpatrick (has the 11th highest CB average salary in the NFL, lol), gave LaFell a $5m cap hit in 2017, wasted $4.25m on Minter (who played 18.5% of the defensive snaps), $3.25m on Rey, $3.14m on A Smith, $2.275m on Hewitt (who only played 11.5% of the offensive snaps), and vastly overspent on Burfict when everyone and their mother knew he was only good for like 10 games a year. (5, 10, 11, 10 played the last 4 years).
Using your money on shitty players/bad contracts AFTER you let your All-Pro LT walk isn't a valid defense on why the FO isn't a dumpster fire.
Sorry, but you are thinking in terms of eating up anything you are told by the Bengals, rather than actually wanting to operate like a winning franchise by getting the most out of your resources, and not be the worst owner in NFL history with an NFL worst current 27 year playoff win drought.
With an expected cap of ~$175m in 2018, the Bengals are looking at having $43m in cap space once Adam Jones is cut. But I can see how rookies and Tyler Kroft could eat up that $43m to the point where paying your best OL would have been disastrous. (lol)
The Dre K deal is the killer to me. It's like he won a game of musical chairs and wound up being the last guy to pay when Whit left and there was no effort to re-sign Z. Now they're stuck (in Bengal dead money thinking, anyway) with a soft, football-dumb corner on the payroll for years to come.
