Darius Slay

[SunsetBengal]

(02-18-2020, 02:48 PM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: As to your first point, AJ is already paid big money. Re-signing him doesn't therefore change much the amount you are spending one year to the next. Paying Mixon is a different matter but there would be other ways to free up money - if you're signing a CB cutting Kirkpatrick would be the obvious counterpart move and saves $11m.

I'm not really sure that holds true.  Dre K is set to be an $11.1M cap hit this year, cutting him still leaves the Bengals on the hook for $2.8M in "dead cap".  Slay's current deal has him earning $13.4M this season.  When you add Slay's salary due and the dead cap from cutting Dre, it totals $16.2M, creating an upspend of $5.1M at the position.

Personally, I just can't imagine anyone in the Bengals front office thinking that is in any way, a good deal.  And that's entirely separate from the question of;  Would Darius Slay even be a good fit with the Bengals organization?