Why are we not extending our good players?

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(03-06-2021, 12:54 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: I think the last legit extension I can think of for one of our really good players was Joe Mixon last off-season.

Why are we not/haven't we extended guys like WJ3, Bates, Lawson, etc.

Bates is a FA after this year. They are going to let Lawson and WJ3 walk...like what are we doing?

Title says "good" players. 2 of the 3 you listed are just "ok" players.

Bates is under contract for 2021, and the franchise tag for safeties is quite reasonable, so they essentially still have him under control for 2 years. An extension wouldn't be bad.

Thing is it's looking like Jackson and Lawson are going to get overpaid in FA, so it's fine to let them go rather than reactionally overpay them as well. Some times you just need to let okay players go when they are going to get paid good/great player money. Case and point, the Mixon deal was predictably a huge mistake.

The problem is the Bengals have 5 straight losing seasons. When you're losing that long, you don't actually have a lot of good players to extend, unless you're just extending people for the sake of it rather than it being a good idea/good value.