You simply cannot throw the baby out with the bath water. This team is better today than it was at this time last year. We are not going to the Super Bowl in 2020 but we want to take another step forward. Many of our “ problem salaries” and question marks should and will be answered by the end of this season. Every season pieces are replaced. But to simply tear it apart and go backwards is not the answers. At this point it may be for the Bengals however I believe we are past that phase.
This is why we are where we are though. Keim every year thinking he has a team that can win goes out and blows his wad on X, Y and Z on short term deals, or coming off a bad injury with no thought to the long term future. Guys like Gilbert ($6m burned), Crabtree ($3m burned), Alford ($6m burned), Rosen, Gresham, Suggs, Swears, Bradford, Iupati, Glennon, Philon, Bethea etc
In total $72m of cap space didn't see the field this year.
While other teams have 3-4 year plans Keim is operating year to year. Saddling us with more bad deals for bad players, more dead money and more backloading that restricts what we can do the next year. Rince and repeat.
It's what he has been doing since 2015.
Extending poor to average guys like Hump and AQ is the ultimate symptom of that behavior. We can't go on doing the same old crap. I guarantee we are here in a year to 18 months bemoaning the awful deal we gave Hump and how we get out of it just like we are the other DJ.
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