Mr. Castellini would you please buy the Bengals...

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(12-06-2019, 01:08 PM)spazz70 Wrote: Very good points..... First off, yep, no salary cap....IMHO the Bengals knew that had to spend money this off season according to the 2011 salary cap CBA guidelines thus the reason for the Hart contract and the GIO contract...they had to spend the money this year!!.....they did not go out and sign one FA that was available/good/average/worth a crap.

Small market teams always have "their year" that is how it is set up...Just like in the NCAAB tourney...a mid major in the final four and such....That is what they have to do....put a team together over a few years and make a run at it for one or two years.

I seriously think they are just bad at what they do. They thought a new staff would come in and coach up a young guy like Hart. They overvalue Bernard...but the main reason they kept Bernard was probably due to seeing Elliott and Gordon holdout and fearing Mixon would do that.

Just terrible decisions.

And the times in the past they did sign free agents like Barry Foster and Antonio Bryant...it was so badly botched that they now fear spending on outside free agents.

But, they keep bring back Eifert and pay AJ Green huge salary to not play. So your own guys can easily be injured.