Sources: Four-time Pro Bowl tackle and Super Bowl champ Orlando Brown Jr. is finalizing a four-year, $64.092 million front-loaded deal with the #Bengals that includes an over $31M signing bonus — largest ever for an o-lineman.
Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch:
Huh? That was Trey Smith constantly getting wrecked, not Taylor.
This.
A majority of the times that Taylor gives up a sack or a pressure it's because Mahomes drops too far back. It is what it is because he's done that his entire career but it still makes it hard for the OTs. [Reply]
You do know that Taylor is hitting our cap this season for only $5.825M while OBJ is hitting Bengals cap for $10.398M? Think your mixed up a little.
It was Chris Jones holdout ass that kept us from not signing a WR not Taylor's $5.825M Cap hit.
Forgive King, he is absolutely fucking clueless when it comes to this shit, hence why he's conveniently always operating in hindsight talking about what we "should've" done. [Reply]
You do know that Taylor is hitting our cap this season for only $5.825M while OBJ is hitting Bengals cap for $10.398M? Think your mixed up a little.
It was Chris Jones holdout ass that kept us from not signing a WR not Taylor's $5.825M Cap hit.
For all intents and purposes none of these things kept us from signing a WR. We could have signed one and structured the deal to still be under the cap if we wanted to at any time. I mean, Hopkins has a 3 mil cap hit this year. There's 100% chance we could have found a way to make that cap hit work if we wanted to.
And our cap hit went down from Chris Jones deal so no, he for sure didn't keep us from signing anyone. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
Forgive King, he is absolutely fucking clueless when it comes to this shit, hence why he's conveniently always operating in hindsight talking about what we "should've" done.
Originally Posted by -King-:
For all intents and purposes none of these things kept us from signing a WR. We could have signed one and structured the deal to still be under the cap if we wanted to at any time. I mean, Hopkins has a 3 mil cap hit this year. There's 100% chance we could have found a way to make that cap hit work if we wanted to.
And our cap hit went down from Chris Jones deal so no, he for sure didn't keep us from signing anyone.
And it's almost like the decision wasn't exclusively Veach's. Hopkins had a choice in this as well. [Reply]
Originally Posted by -King-:
For all intents and purposes none of these things kept us from signing a WR. We could have signed one and structured the deal to still be under the cap if we wanted to at any time. I mean, Hopkins has a 3 mil cap hit this year. There's 100% chance we could have found a way to make that cap hit work if we wanted to.
And our cap hit went down from Chris Jones deal so no, he for sure didn't keep us from signing anyone.
THe whole Jones saga wasn't finished until Dhop had already signed. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
And it's almost like the decision wasn't exclusively Veach's. Hopkins had a choice in this as well.
Dude did visits with the Patriots and Titans and didn't sign for a month after. That tells me we weren't anywhere near his ball park when it comes to contract offers. [Reply]
Originally Posted by -King-:
Dude did visits with the Patriots and Titans and didn't sign for a month after. That tells me we weren't anywhere near his ball park when it comes to contract offers.
Originally Posted by O.city:
THe whole Jones saga wasn't finished until Dhop had already signed.
And we could have still signed DHop and adjusted Chris Jones contract accordingly. Or restructure Mahomes for a couple million and sign DHop without interfering with Chris Jones negotiations. Or sign DHop with available cap space and back load his deal to next year.
Originally Posted by -King-:
And we could have still signed DHop and adjusted Chris Jones contract accordingly. Or restructure Mahomes for a couple million and sign DHop without interfering with Chris Jones negotiations. Or sign DHop with available cap space and back load his deal to next year.
There's always options.
Andy and Brett told us in February that they thought Toney was WR1 and Skyy would be much better this year.
Originally Posted by -King-:
And we could have still signed DHop and adjusted Chris Jones contract accordingly. Or restructure Mahomes for a couple million and sign DHop without interfering with Chris Jones negotiations. Or sign DHop with available cap space and back load his deal to next year.
There's always options.
They had to have redone Pat's deal by a certain date, which had already passed IIRC.
Backloading it would have been the way to have done it, but I would guess they didn't wanna pay that. I dunno. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother:
Thinking Toney could even play enough to be a number 1 option is sickening
Like Skyy, he must be showing something in practice everyday.
I refuse to believe they’re putting out the same product day-in and day-out that they’re giving us on game day and still being relied on so heavily.. [Reply]