When was the last time...

[*ochocincos*]

(01-18-2018, 11:46 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: We're in the middle of Part 2 of this happening with Marvin Jones leaving. Jones left after '15, and the Bengals have....

Tyler Boyd (2nd round + 4yr/$4.25m)
Cody Core (6th round + 4yr/$2.46m)
John Ross (9th overall + 4yr/$17.1m)
Josh Malone (4th round + 4yr/$2.99m)
Brandon LaFell (1yr/$2.5m + 2yr/$9m)

...as their replacement attempts at #2 WR, and they're heading into 2018 and STILL don't have that answered. They went the predictable Bengals route of going for a meh LaFell at $2.5m rather than a Mike Wallace (2yr/$11.5m) or Rishard Matthews (3yr/$15m) and then doubled down by giving more money to LaFell because at that point he was one of their guys, and wasting more draft picks. Yet those four draft picks and LaFell still haven't been able to fill the #2 WR role like Wallace or Matthews could have, and at quite a reasonable salary, too.


(Part 3 will be in another year or two when we fully realize how much resources was wasted on trying to replace Whit.)

LaFell's contract was actually two-year, $9 mill ($5 mill in 2017, $4 mill in 2018). $2.5 mill is just the base salary.

I hate the strategy of throwing a bunch of draft picks against the wall and seeing which one sticks.

And Tennessee got a heck of a deal with Matthews. $5 mill average per year for a receiver who has put up 1740 yards and 13 TDs in the past two years? On a run-oriented team no less.