09-01-2015, 03:41 PM
(09-01-2015, 03:01 PM)CornerBlitz Wrote: The Bengals haven't signed any bad contracts lately because they haven't really signed anyone that makes a significant amount of money in the Free Agent market. These numbers will always be skewed in the Bengals favor because they rarely spend money in free agency.
They also rarely cut their players even though they are on inferior contracts such as Geathers all those years. Mike Brown is loyal to a fault in this case.
Is it really hard to give the Bengals FO any credit here?
Okay, so maybe if we cut Geathers a year earlier, we'd have only been the 31st in dead money instead of 32nd
Let's stop acting like free agency is the only reason the numbers are "skewed" to favor the Bengals. The numbers favor the Bengals because they haven't signed a ton of bad contracts. Some of it has to do with luck of our players not being injured, some of it has to do with free agency, but that's not 100% of where dead money comes from. Signing bad extensions and overpaying mediocre players also plays a role, and the Bengals have done a great job with cap management as of late.
2 divisional rivals, the Steelers and Ravens are both in the top 10 in dead money this year. Neither team is known for being overly active in free agency and signing players that command significant contracts from outside of their organization. We would be crushing MB for this if we were in the top 5/10 without being active in FA. The FO deserves some amount of credit for being dead last in dead money. We can't just pretend that there aren't any teams in the top of the dead money list that are just as inactive as the Bengals when it comes to FA.
