Congratulation Bates

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(01-08-2021, 05:00 PM)ochocincos Wrote: There's some discrepancy about whether Price would save any cap if cut. OverTheCap says his whole $3.7 mill contract is treated as dead cap if cut.
https://overthecap.com/player/billy-price/6906/

As for Finney, we don't know he's bad. He just never got a chance to play as a Bengal yet. But he's been a consistently good pass blocker when he was in SEA. 

I don't see any way the Bengals would consider removing all of Hopkins, Price, and Finney. They'd have to draft another C to back up Linsley or move someone like Michael Jordan to be his backup.

I'd be happy if the Bengals went after Linsley, but 1) we don't even know if he's going to make it to FA (GB could extend or franchise him), 2) I can't imagine Bengals are high on his destination list, and 3) Bengals haven't traditionally paid $10+ mill for any IOL.

My expectation: Bengals keep Hopkins and either Price or Finney through this year as they look to solidify the other OL spots.

Yeah, I was using Spotrac's numbers for Price.

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As for Finney being a consistently good pass blocker when he was in SEA, how do you mean? He played 0 snaps on offense in his half year as a Seahawk. They have him as having played only 29 snaps for Seattle, all of them on special teams, and then they used him as a salary dump.

Before that he was a backup for Pittsburgh, and I don't trust Pittsburgh OL numbers as far as I can throw their 330lb players what with all the constant holding they get away with.

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As for Linsley making it to FA, I am all but positive that he will, because I don't think the Packers even have the ability to franchise tag him right now. The Packers are currently slated to have -$22.5m in cap space for 2021 with only 41 people under contract.

That's what happens when the cap is projected to drop to $175m, and Aaron Rodgers has a 2021 cap hit of $36.4m alone and their two OLBs and LT combine for another $57.8m in cap hits... and none can be cut because they are all three at the start of their contracts so cutting would just increase their cap hit for 2021 by a ton.

The Packers aren't going to be doing much of anything this offseason as far as signing guys for more than league minimum goes.