08-07-2025, 09:06 AM
(08-06-2025, 12:07 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Tobin needs to learn that's how Free Agency works...
You pay good money for good veterans, and you have to supplement that with value veterans and draft picks to build the best team.
Does it suck that Burrow, Chase, and Higgins are no longer on their rookie deals?
Absolutely.
But now it's on Tobin and the rest of the FO and coaches to identify good players to fill the gaps now that so much of the cap is being eaten up by Burrow, Chase, and Higgins.
All 3 of these core guys impacted the success of the team their first or second year, resulting in good bang for the buck.
They need these (especially early) draft picks of the past couple years to start producing and being significant contributors to not decline.
If the Bengals didn't want to pay more money for the same team, they should probably have let some of the expensive guys walk and found (better) ways to backfill them with cheaper options.
I took it more as him saying he didn’t want to have the bulk of the same team as last year and the only relative change was salary. He wanted to bring in new guys.
Which I guess we did, sigh. Just no one that transforms this team.
