Good Chance Dalton & Green are Gone In 2020.

[BengalChris]

(12-18-2019, 02:06 AM)kevin Wrote: I knew Green wasn't signed.  I just found out Bengals don't have to pay Dalton, they can get rid of him at no salary cap hit.  Now you take those 2 big veteran Pro Bowl contracts away and you have money to rebuild for 2020's.  Neither Green or Dalton will be here 2029, and they also fall into the What Have They Done Lately category.  You can add in Eifert contract on that to go.

I'm sure Bengals are looking at Burrow.  He would be signed cheaper than Dalton at first, top pick and all.  The NFL changed things a couple years ago and the rookies draft picks aren't paid through the ceiling the way it was getting out of hand.  A Burrow would get good money, but not veteran Pro Bowl money, not at first.

If the 1-13 Bengals dump Green and Dalton they owe them no money, no salary cap hit.  That free's up money for the new players we all agree this team needs.  So expect this to be just as year Carson & Chad left same year and enter Green & Dalton in 2011, only without the soap opera.  More business than soap opera.

To Green and Dalton Fans I get wanting them back.  At 1-13 it just makes more sense to dump the 2 biggest contracts on the team like pulling off a band-aid all at once.   The Bengals will have mega bucks for new players.  To those that say they already have some cap space, even better.  

We are entering all new quarterbacks in the AFC North anyway.  The question is who gets the best one.  Right now it's Jackson, then Mayfield, then Rudolph, then Finley.  The 2020's are here.  Which team takes the lead.  I can see the desire for a Burrow to be way up on this list of names.

They are all set up to make big changes like 2011, and at 1-13 and the awful 2018 season and not very good 2017 season and 2016 season, I welcome the changes.  I've seen the team get worse and worse since 2015.  Now at rock bottom it's time to start climbing back up.   I felt this way after the awful 2008 and 2010 season, if Chad and Carson want to go, GOOD, get some new players in here.  Just like 2011, it's time to dump the biggest contracts again in 2020.  

It's not personal Sonny.  Just like Pop, it's Business.  Neither Green or Dalton are the long range Future, and at 1-13 going into a new decade it's the long range Future this franchise has a chance to go for NOW, THIS DRAFT. The good news is most teams in AFC North find themselves in rebuilding mode other than Ravens, so Bengals can maybe rebuild as fast as Steelers and Browns.   Bengals can't stand pat and put off the rebuild and fall behind Steelers and Browns on this. 1-13 is not just a number, it's a fact this team needs major changes like after 2008 and 2010. It's not personal Sonny, it's Business just like Pop.

Having cap space doesn't mean much with Mike Brown. He'll save it up for late in his 10 year plan to return to a winning season. Don't expect any quality free agent signings, just some dumpster dwellers like Webb whoever the Giants or Miami cast aside after their dismal seasons.

He will overpay some sub-par players to stay, witness Hart and Bernard contracts so he can stay above the minimum salary cap.

I say these things simply because history says it will be this way.