Why are we not extending our good players?

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(03-07-2021, 09:30 PM)Destro Wrote: But the player has not choice in if they get more/enough good players. They may figure the team may not get enough good players around them to win. It's not like the Bengals ever knocked anyone's socks off in getting those players, or even field a good team lately. Cowboys have been awful, but they try to bring in ballers constantly and actually get some. Bengals are a meme team and these players know it.  

You are talking theory.  We are talking reality.  Just look around the league.  Lots of good young players take extensions with teams that are not good.  And every year bad teams are able to sign good free agents if they pay enough.

Also players pay more attention to reality that fans like you.  For example they don't fawn over the cowboys and call the Bengals a "meme team" when the Bengals have made the playoffs TWICE as often as the Cowboys over the last 12 years.