Free Agency is Over (before it even began)

[muskiesfan]

The Bengals are sitting on around $32-36m in cap space. Atkins and Dunlap already count for almost $17m against the cap this year. Giving both extensions is only going to hurt because the Browns will count bonus money against this year's cap to bring it down. Provided they sign both, let's say they're around $20m left. Then add in Andre Smith for $3-4m, maybe Minter for another $3-4m, and that leaves enough for the rookie pool and the outrageous injury fund. That's it. That's your free agency. Maybe they'll try to bring Eifert in on the cheap, but that's probably not far off from what's about to happen.

Obviously they could do more. Obviously they should do more, but we all know how that goes.