02-11-2019, 02:06 PM
(02-11-2019, 02:00 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: The whole don't sign unrestricted free agents because you lose compensatory picks is IMO the worst part of our strategy.
JON: Even before the change at head coach, you had to wonder if they’d adjust their free-agent approach given what has to be done on the offensive line and at linebacker. One of the Bengals’ hard and fast principles is to stay away from unrestricted free agents so they don’t lose compensatory draft picks for the UFAs they lose. The Bengals and Zac Taylor spent plenty of time talking before he signed, so you have to feel he knows the club’s philosophical approach to free agency and is all in. He made that clear in his opening address that he wants to build through the draft, but there are always exceptions and I could see them making an exception this March and going out early to get a UFA to free up the draft.
So he basically says he can see them breaking away from that here to open the draft up...What's the issue? We were never going to be the big money spenders year in and out. The teams that have won with some FA's have done so sparingly when it's a one off to make a run. The teams that are constantly players in FA simply don't win. That isn't spin that is just looking at the numbers.
I think realistically a Tackle and a LB like Cory Littleton are a realistic haul in FA along with some depth and resigns of our own guys (Dennard, Brown, etc.)
