Hart signing does not bother me as long as it does not dictate Draft strategy

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(03-13-2019, 03:50 PM)depthchart Wrote: I just don't consider Hart to be an atrocious player.

Granted, he is on that bottom tier of starting caliber tackles.

32 teams with 64 starting tackles and Hart hovers in that 60 to 70 range.

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If Hart ends up making $7 million per year then he will be performing well to do so.

Making $5 million per year is in the area of low end veteran starter money which is what Hart is.

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I just don't see the SKY Falling here but that will Hinge on how the Bengals view all of this.

If Hart is their guy for the next 3 years then I see clouds at my feet.

If this move is a Bridge to a rookie upgrade then the money involved doesn't break the Bank in today's NFL.

He was 69th out of 70-75, with only 64 possible original starters, and he's not atrocious?

If he were a QB, he would be Josh Rosen (or worse) in 2018. Except Hart has now been terrible for FOUR years in the NFL.

It's not even like he is a former 1st round pick who has all this potential waiting to be tapped. The guy was a 7th round pick, so people weren't impressed BEFORE he entered the NFL, and then he entered the NFL and has shown to be nothing but terrible.

It's like if the Bengals decided this offseason to give James Wright $5-7m/yr. 7th round guy, has done nothing but play terribly, but decides to big against yourself and throw money at him anyway.

Any random late round rookie could give up 10 sacks and have 11 penalties. It's not like there's a high bar to be better, and for 1/10th-1/14th the cost. We KNOW Hart sucks, but at least the rookie has the potential to not suck. I have a feeling Year 5 of Bobby Hart is going to look a lot like the previous 4 terrible years.

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Except that most of his incentives aren't based off of playing well, but just being around.

If he is ACTIVE (not even a starter) for 16 games and is terrible, he still hits a LOT of his incentives. If he is on the roster and is terrible, he still gets his bonuses.

His $7m isn't predicated on Pro Bowl, or All-Pro, or anything of that sort. Just being healthy and not being a healthy scratch on gameday.

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Nobody signs players to 3 year deals for "bridges".

It doesn't break the bank, but it's $4.5-6.5m that you're wasting and not spending on actually improving the team.

Worse than the wasted money is the fact that you're resigning the OL to be absolute crap again in 2019. Hurray another wasted year... three of those on Ogbuehi wasn't enough. Now we need 2-4 of them on Hart!