I was wrong

[jfkbengals]

(03-31-2020, 07:14 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: What I want to know is this:  What was the spark?  The catalyst?  Why now?  I wonder what snapped.  Maybe the 2-14 season and a mostly empty stadium loosened Frankenstein’s bolts, so to speak.

Because we have all seen since 2001 that you have 5 years under a rookie QB to set yourself up for a championship before you must pay said QB and cripple your cap.  So we can't draft Joe and spend the next 5 drafts getting a great squad around him.  Instead we need to have the pieces in place within 2 years to have a three year window for a championship before the cap goes to hell for a few years because of him.