Whit & Zeitler Vs Geno & Carlos

[Stewy]

(08-30-2018, 02:24 AM)Shady Wrote: I've never put any effort into understanding the cap, and I don't keep tabs on how much $$$ the Bengals organization is under the cap, but I was just wondering about something.

Had we paid Whit and Zeitler the money needed to keep them, would we have been able to extend Geno and Carlos?

I kind of doubt it. Does anybody here have a more definitive answer?

If we couldn't have afforded to keep all 4, which 2 would you have preferred? I'd go with Carlos and Geno. Defense wins championships.

BTW, I hate how the rising salaries are destroying the game. If you build a good-great team, you'll never be able to afford to keep them together for very long.

Probably but we would never have paid them those numbers for those lengths.  

However, if we had paid Whit it probably wouldn't have affected these deals much because it would have been shorter term even if it was high dollars.  Less overlap.  The Zeitler deal would have affected things I'm sure.  But of the two, if the FO HAD to chose one I'd say we would have paid Whit for several reasons over Zeitler.  They value tackles higher, Whit is a better lineman, Whit was the leader of the OLine and a leader in the clubhouse and MB is loyal.  I am sure it was very difficult for MB to let Whit go, but that's the business end of it, and the Piano Man had MB convinced we didn't need Whit due to the two high draft tackles he hand picked.