Jim O - Expect Bengals to have about $15 mill for open FA market

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(03-11-2018, 02:28 PM)jj22 Wrote: Those teams just don't make it a priority to re-sign players like Bodine, Andre Smith, Adam Jones, and Eifert to take 10+m off the cap. That's the difference. Sure they make cuts. They don't feel the need to keep players like MJ and Lafell. I don't slam them for making those cap casualty cuts to bring in talent.

We'll see as we always do teams with far less cap space re-signing their players (even using the Franchise tag) and being active in free agency.

There's another tactic they use, one which the FO will never use (and for obvious reason).

Creating salary cap hell by restructuring current salaries into bonuses, thus pushing the cap hit into future dead money.

This FO is VERY adamant about having minimal dead cap space, and I tend to agree with that position.