Hobson still spinning the same old crap

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(02-11-2019, 07:07 PM)fredtoast Wrote: First of all not all of the players we let go were worth the money they got in free agency.  Would you have rather we paid Stacy Andrews in excess of $40 million instead of letting him go?

Second, we don't just get picks, we also get the salary cap room.  If we keep Nelson, Whitworth, and Zeitler then we have to cut a lot of guys from our 2016 roster.  Those three earned about $37 million in 2016.  The Bengals spent $157.6 million that year which was actually more than the league salary cap of $155.3 million.  They were able to do that because they had cap space to roll over from the previous year, but they would have had to cut a lot of players to keep Whit, Zeitler, and Nelson because they had less than $5 million in cap space.

And finally, the comp picks effect the entire draft.  For example, do we still use a 4th round pick on a DT in 2010 (Geno Atkins) if we had not addressed CB with our third round comp pick?

Fred-Posting 101

Step 1: Make a random claim that is easily proven wrong by anyone with a tiny bit of research, but present it like gospel.
ie. "Marvin Jones and George Iloka were compensatory picks."

Step 2: When someone points out with facts that you were wrong with said tiny bit of research, ignore it like it never happened and focus on an entirely different argument that was nowhere near your original argument, using extremes are best. Also ignore the points the other person made if they are inconvenient.
ie. "Would you prefer paying Stacy Andrews all of the monies? If you keep X players, you have to get rid of other players. If you do this, you won't get *insert best player here*."

Step 3: When the other side realizes they are being Fred-Posted, they lose interest in pointing out things like... the original point made wasn't that the Bengals should sign ALL of their free agents regardless of the price, but that they shouldn't avoid adding talented players in FA because of trying to Smeagol comp picks... congrats, you have Fred-Posted your way out of embarassment and into ending the conversation.

Step 4: Prepare another easily proven false argument to do it all again.