Couple Bengals on PFF FA rankings

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(01-08-2021, 01:10 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: Don't hammer me for this, but you surely saw the defense when WJIII and Alexander weren't out there, right?  You don't get better by not signing your best players.  And you won't get the same defense if you have a healthy Reader, Wren, Tupou, and Waynes out there.  

Of course I want them to spend on the offensive line as well, but not at the expense of three of our best players. I think that also sends a dangerous message that the top performers aren't re-signed.  

I think the Bengals could make it work from a cap standpoint with the contracts they are not renewing (Green, S. Williams, Ross) and the potential cuts (Geno, Hart-although I am not too certain about that one) that they could bring in a veteran Guard like Sherff or Thuney and spend a fairly high draft pick on a RT to groom behind Hart (that's why I don't let him go for any guy, even Sewell, that hasn't played in a year) and have a tremendous improvement over much of what sucked in 2020.

Mike Jordan was an absolute disaster and they stuck with him for way too long in 2020.  XSF has proven to be solid, but not great, since returning from injury, and Spain could also be a candidate to start at RG should Thuney or Sherff get the other guard spot.  Maybe they go with a FA tackle and draft a guard.  It all depends on what is out there.  

I would not want to cut Gio or Uzo, but if it meant one of those guys vs. a Thuney or Sherff, then I would do it.  I think a lot of the veteran FAs out there might find contracts not as much to their liking as so many teams are likely to be in cap hell.  The Bengals are actually in a pretty good position of strength.  

This sounds an awful lot like "they just need to get healthy and add 1 guy in FA on the OL to play LG"... which sounds an awful lot like the 2020 team just with one extra OL and a wish and a prayer.

That's not a plan, man. Or at least not a good one.

Also WJ3 missed only 2 games and one of those games was the Ravens game where they ran for over 400 yards, so I am not sure how his absence changed anything on defense.

I'm not sure how you think that not paying these guys sends a "dangerous message". They're still going to get paid in FA. It's not like Bengals players are suddenly going to loaf, because they still want to make theirs be it here or elsewhere. The message that it would send is "win or we'll find people who can win" by bringing in multiple top tier OL additions to protect Burrow and actually change the team dynamic rather than Year 6 of just holding as many of the same guys together as you can from the previous years and hoping that this will be the year your team gets a miracle and has 0 people get injured.


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Also, the idea that you'd choose Hart over Sewell or anyone else for 2021.... I don't even know where to start with that as far as words go so I will just put these here:

#Bengals Bobby Hart

Example: I lost count pic.twitter.com/6mIZAwy6Q0

— ?️RAZY ?️ENGAL (@BrazyBengal) December 6, 2020

Bobby Hart taking social distancing very seriously ?‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/q7muebjTgX

— Elite Andy Dalton (@EvilAndyDalton) September 18, 2020

Joey Bosa gets one on our good friend Bobby Hart. pic.twitter.com/6J9xtgXCv5

— Bobby Skinner (@BobbySkinner_) September 13, 2020