09-01-2015, 02:50 PM
(09-01-2015, 02:43 PM)Stormborn Wrote: Pretty special when your among the league leaders in recent wins, but there's always a downside to these things.
The organization has become gun shy of potential game changing acquisitions. They should be willing to risk their standings in this category so they can advance further on the field as well.
Just looking at both sides of the spectrum here.
As you pointed out, it's definitely a more impressive feat when you're among the league leader in wins AND the lowest amount of dead money over a 5 year span, that's excellent to see.
On the flip side, I'm one of the guys that's usually yelling in free agency that we should go after a mid-top tier guy here and there. I'm all on board with that. BUT, even though that's the case, I'm still impressed that the Bengals haven't signed many "bad" contracts recently. There are many teams that are near the top of the dead money leaderboards that aren't known for their big FA acquisitions either, so it's not like avoiding FA is the only thing keeping us low on the dead money list.
Avoiding huge name FAs and contracts has likely had something to do with our perceived excellent cap management, but I'm just saying that there is much more to it as I'm sure you know, and the Bengals have definitely done a great job in that regard over the past half decade. Some may say the team is "loyal to a fault", and while that could be the case with some aging veterans, I still can't think of many occasions where we should have released a guy where there would have been a lot of dead money left on their deal.
