Burfict gets extension

[Be Weary of Query]

4 years, $20 million

 

[Be Weary of Query]

 

[ckhokie]

Can't complain about this.

Good for 'Taze

 

[flamingrey]

Good deal.

 

[kramer1]

Good deal for all involved.

 

[bengaldoug]

 

[SDGuy73]

Great deal. He makes plays.

 

[cincygrad]

Awesome!

Still have two years to lock AJ up.... And plenty of cash in upcoming years.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Well, the fact that he gets 7.6 million this year of the 20 million, only means he will be cheaper in years following this year when we need the money more.

I am a little concerned that him and Atkins will be coming up due for a contract extension in the same offseason. But for now, we have each for 4 more years.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

It’s believed the Burfict deal has put the Bengals over the $133 million salary cap for 2014 and has begun to nibble at their $8 million carryover for 2015. But that won’t stop them from trying to extend three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver A.J. Green before the start of next season, they've said. They’ve already exercised their fifth-year option and are committed to pay Green $10.5 million in 2015.

Well, everyone can understand why they didn't resign Michael Johnson and Anthony Collins now. So the bitching about that can now stop.

Atkins ($55 million)
Dunlap ($40 million)
Dalton ($96 million)
Burfict ($20 million) - a steal in the draft, and a damn steal with 2nd contract cost
Green ($10.5 million set for next years option) They are still trying to get him extended this season beyond next years option.

They really are keeping their own, they just can't keep them all because we have too much damn talent now.

 

[jwil007]

So the "Mike Brown is cheap" shit should cease... Katie is wheeling and dealing like the freekin stock market..... I love it! thats a very good deal. and thats a deal that in 2 or 3 years Katie and Mike could rip up and give him an extension.

 

[DanBengalfan]

they must be pretty sure Dalton is going to fail.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

they must be pretty sure Dalton is going to fail.

I don't know why you say that. They are putting the pieces around him to help ensure he doesn't, otherwise, if they are that confident about it, they surely wouldn't have given him 96 million.

 

[flamingrey]

It’s believed the Burfict deal has put the Bengals over the $133 million salary cap for 2014 and has begun to nibble at their $8 million carryover for 2015. But that won’t stop them from trying to extend three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver A.J. Green before the start of next season, they've said. They’ve already exercised their fifth-year option and are committed to pay Green $10.5 million in 2015.

Well, everyone can understand why they didn't resign Michael Johnson and Anthony Collins now. So the bitching about that can now stop.

Atkins ($55 million)
Dunlap ($40 million)
Dalton ($96 million)
Burfict ($20 million) - a steal in the draft, and a damn steal with 2nd contract cost
Green ($10.5 million set for next years option) They are still trying to get him extended this season beyond next years option.

They really are keeping their own, they just can't keep them all because we have too much damn talent now.

BS. Johnson and/or Collins could have been signed and structured along with Burfict and whomever else in a way to make it all work under the cap. Additionally, they still have $8 million in carryover that could have also been used to help get creative with the contracts. Your excuses are lame.

Why is it that only the Bengals have these cap "issues"?

 

[DanBengalfan]

at least we aren't the Jaguars.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

BS. Johnson and/or Collins could have been signed and structured along with Burfict and whomever else in a way to make it all work under the cap. Additionally, they still have $8 million in carryover that could have also been used to help get creative with the contracts. Your excuses are lame.

Why is it that only the Bengals have these cap "issues"?

BS to you.

The 8 million is for carry over, which means, next year will not have that padding, it gets decreased, so if you have to sign guys off practice squad or off FA during the season (because no one ever gets hurt in the NFL) then you have to have that cost. You do not want injuries to mount during the year and then be forced to cut a damn good player for salary cap relief in mid season or during the offseason.

The Bengals have done the cap the right away. They have spent right up to it and actually exceeded it, unlike years past. Michael Johnson and Anthony Collins got how much per year for the two of them? There is no way, the Bengals extend Dalton and Burfict this year with Johnson and Collins signed. They sign Burfict, but not Dalton, and they wanted Dalton, so you can whine and bitch all you want about that, but it will not change the fact, with the two contracts they doled out, and still looking to sign Green long term who will get a monster pay day, same as Dalton did, you can't resign everyone. Which is why a lot of teams let good players go into FA all the time, because they overspent in the cap.

Every good team signs players up to cap, and they are willing to go over and force themselves to let a really good player go FA or cut one, hoping that in the next year or two t hey have found a suitable replacement through the draft.

These "teams" you speak of that sign all these FA's and players you say we can sign, are willing to cut the decent players they need to in order to get back down to cap. The bengals are tryign to hold their core together.

Dalton, Green, Dunlap, Atkins, Burfict, etc.

We will have issues in the next couple years also trying to sign other good players from Bernard, to Gresham, to finding new Tackles to replace Whitworth and Smith, along with players from the secondary like Hall, Dennard, Nelson, etc.

This is a very young team, making very little in salary, at least a lot of these players, who will require hugh pay hikes with the talent we have accumulated. We are already at cap, and while some players will leave, or get old enough to let go and use their salary to sign some of these younger guys, some will have to go FA, because you just can't sign every star, especially when you have as many as the bengals do right now.

 

[cincygrad]

Bengals could have re-signed Johnson and Collins and still made these deals. It might have required a different structure to all the deals that they made, but they started the offseason with plenty of wiggle room. They could have also restructured veteran contracts to open space now and create small problems long term. If you look at the talent on the team and you are really "all-in" on Dalton, I think you do what you can do to try to win the AFC right now. The best team in the AFC is Denver -- And they can definitely be beat. The AFC is currently wide open...... You might not be able to say that in 3 or 4 years when Andrew Luck has a full squad built around him.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Bengals could have re-signed Johnson and Collins and still made these deals. It might have required a different structure to all the deals that they made, but they started the offseason with plenty of wiggle room. They could have also restructured veteran contracts to open space now and create small problems long term. If you look at the talent on the team and you are really "all-in" on Dalton, I think you do what you can do to try to win the AFC right now. The best team in the AFC is Denver -- And they can definitely be beat. The AFC is currently wide open...... You might not be able to say that in 3 or 4 years when Andrew Luck has a full squad built around him.

You can't "wiggle in" 12 million dollars a year. You start working those contracts in, and you have to start cutting depth.

I think we have the team right now, without Johnson and Collins to win now as long as our core is intact and our depth is crazy deep as it is right now, especially in the secondary. That is what is going to keep us in games against teams like NE, DEN, NO.

 

[flamingrey]

You can't "wiggle in" 12 million dollars a year. You start working those contracts in, and you have to start cutting depth.

I think we have the team right now, without Johnson and Collins to win now as long as our core is intact and our depth is crazy deep as it is right now, especially in the secondary. That is what is going to keep us in games against teams like NE, DEN, NO.

Actually, you have to carry 53 men on the roster.

 

[flamingrey]

I'm not sure which part of $8 million still left you don't understand. You can easily fit in 1 player, if not both, for $8 million.