What To Do With $60Million Dollars

I like a lot of it. If we signed Williams, I dont see both Fanene and Rucker being signed. I said before I would rather use a first on Kendall Wright than sign Johnson. I would also rather sign a vet then use a draft pick on a cb.

I think we should go after Lynch or Bush in FA. We need a beast at RB and both of these guys fit the bill. If we dont sign a FA RB than we have to do everything in our power to draft Richarson.

http://www.cincyjungle.com/2012/2/13/2795924/offseason-plan-with-salary-cap-update-2-13-12

Signed
OT: Collins (what position for 2012?)
OG: Ben Grubbs, Bobbie Williams
WR: Stevie Johnson
DT: Sims, Fanene
DE: Mario Williams, Rucker
FS: Nelson

Drafted:
CB: 2 first rounders?!?
DT: 2nd round
RB: 3rd round clone of Bernard Scott

So this plan gives us 5 DE’s and 4 DT’s capable of starting, but no running back who can carry the starting load or a 1st round pick in 2013. Uh, I don’t think you’ve thought this through so well…

Besides, I think with so much cap room available and a full offseason to negotiate (rather than the 2 week mad-rush of last year), the contract averages are going to really boggle the mind.

If we somehow resigned our players you mentioned along with Pac, signed Mario & Nicks/Grubbs, and drafted:

DeCastro
Richardson
Gilmore

I would be estatic

I read where LaRon Landry not only ruptured his Achilles, but he elected not to have surgery on it and is letting it heal itself. Unless he is willing to take a minimum contract, there is no way I sign him.

I believe that the NFL is evolving into a 3 “number one” receiver league (whomever they may be – TE, RB, WR). To get the most out of AJ and Dalton, we need a serious threat opposite our stud. I vote for Wallace from the Steelers. Taking him from the already unsettled and aging offense (OC change, Roth unrest) makes the Bengals stronger and the Steelers weaker when it counts most, the 2-3 times a year they play each other (possible playoff matchup). The Steelers may get a first round draft pick out of it but it is still worth it. Without Wallace their whole offense collapses and becomes one-dimensional. They will have no ability to stretch the field and it may take years to develop a new alternative, if they can find one at all.

Here’s my thinking in a nutshell on Wallace. The contract you have to offer him realistically for the Bengals would preclude much other impact activity in FA. As much as we’d love to get Nicks, Mario and Wallace, Mike Brown will never ever make it happen. Remember, this is not fantasy football.

So, assuming that Brown will only make one impact move, between Carl Nicks and Wallace. Then, let’s look at the 1st round of the draft. Would you rather start round 2 of the draft with the following additions:

Scenario A
FA – Carl Nicks
1a – Trent Richardson
1b – Dre Kirkpatrick

Scenario B
FA – Mike Wallace
1a – David DeCastro

Whether those actual draft picks are available to us at our picks isn’t germane to the discussion. I put the ideal picks in both scenarios for purposes of analysis.

this is assuming that Wallace signs their tender (obviously someone else could give him an offer)

Scenario A
FA – Mike Wallace
1 – Janoris Jenkins

Scenario B
1a – Kendall Wright
1b – Dre Kirkpatrick

THE BENGALS ARE WELL UNDER THE CAP WHILE 75% OF THE TEAMS ARE SCRAMBLING FOR CAP ROOM, guards are off the table unless its DECASTRO, If its me, I am not drafting any cb who got busted for weed six months before he was about to get paid millions, destroying his value, and I for damn sure am not taking the guy that moron Jenkins, who got busted twice in a couple of weeks. HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET? Peyton Manning never had any first round guards, Decastro maybe, YOU CONSIDER HIM he does have unusual quickness. cornerbacks cost 8-9 million, and are second most valuable, to quarterbacks. I’D TAKE DENNARD, AND THE CORNER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, WHO IS A SECOND ROUND GUY, SO I TRADE DOWN FROM 21, and take him. I would consider this guy in two, for sure, and Pead and Boom Herron, or whoever is more of a between the tackles RB, in four. Alexander is right, Livings is good enough to start, spends less time on the ground now, and can be signed cheaply, Marvin doesn’t throw his cap dollars around, just need a guy to get in the way. resign Bobby for far less than 4.5mil, which he made last year, and/or bring that guy from Pitt back, and with 60 million under the cap, get a free agent wr, an experienced guy like Colston, to stabilize a young receiver corps while that guy from the sixth round last year develops, from Stanford, then just bargain shop in free agency, if a guy is unsigned because everyone is maxed out on their cap credit cards, say Ben Grubbs is available for 3 million, pounce, but ML is as stingy with a buck as Mike, he is just a better evaluator of talent. OK, forget Antonio Bryant, at least they corrected it by throwing the team doctors under the bus.

they want to control the ball Wallace has been inconsistent, not giving up that one we stole for Mike Wallace, unless they throw in Andy Rooney. And Art Rooney.

Another thought…

Get Nicks and then:

Bundle one first this year with a later pick and one pick next year (need to get to 1600 pnts.) and move up to the Redskin’s 6 spot this year and get Morris Claiborne at CB (ready to start now).

with the remaining first round pick get Dontari Poe