04-03-2020, 09:34 PM
(04-03-2020, 03:59 PM)PikesPeakUC Wrote: Financials are out for the Reader contract.
The #Bengals have officially signed free agent DT DJ Reader, source said. It took a while, but it just happened. He accepted additional language that many clubs have inserted. He gets $53M over 4 years with a large sum of $22.25M in Year 1 and $31.75M over first 2 years.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 3, 2020
Great news, thanks PikesPeak.
(04-03-2020, 05:42 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Why? If he flops, you're out a ton of money before you can pull the plug. Meanwhile even if he's as great as advertised, you have used up more of your cap space so now you can't maximize your cap space NOW to add more good players.
The best teams find ways to create MORE cap space for each year, not find ways to make less. Worry about potential cap issues 3 years from now, 3 years from now.
Reader is proven and right now we need to build for the future when we need to pay our Franchise QB in case he plays as
good in the NFL as he did last season in college. The one thing I was afraid of was us NOT helping out Burrow this FA and
waiting. That would be stupid cause of the way the best Franchise QB's are being paid now.
Right now is the time to build Taylor's team around Burrow, not wait for 3 frickin' years.... WTF?
