Dexter Lawrence contract with Bengals will be 3-for-70 ($23.3M/year). That is below market and team friendly.
There are 9 DTs making more per year, and Chris Jones is at $31.7M per year as an older player.
As NFL players sign contracts topping a billion dollars combined this week, check out this Dayton Daily News story from 1976, detailing the offseason jobs #Bengals players were working. Even QB Ken Anderson was moonlighting.
H/T @glynch on the find.
I haven't chimed in on here about the Bengals-DT situation, but the DTs that were signed/traded yesterday didn't make sense for a team that currently has two starting DTs.
@JakeLiscow Won’t change their ways with Jamar and Joe on the team, they never will.
Sad to say but I’m ready for the Joey B era to be over so I can stop following the Bengals.
Wanna know why?
The longer I've stewed on the Mafe structure, the worse it sits with me. Year 1 cap hit unnecessarily large, AGAIN. I called it cap malpractice with Tee last year
Kneecapping themselves from even doing midrange deals to raise the level of the roster and compete
The Cowboys and Bengals are mirror images of each other in so many different ways.
Elite QBs. Elite WR duos. A bunch of OL investments.
But they have a front office that has no idea what it truly means to be all-in and how to go about it.