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Originally Posted by ChaosTheory
Sure. By the way, it's not like free agency is some default evil. I'm also not claiming the Bengals have it all figured out. I don't know what they'll do in the future. I'm just pointing out a convenient comparison.
I'd much rather be the Bengals with young drafted talent and nearly $60m in the bank for that talent rather than the Rams at $8m or $9m over the cap with only a 5th and 7th rounder or whatever it is they have.
My ultimate point is I'm glad our GM A.) drafts pretty well which ideally keeps us with an influx of younger, cheaper talent and B.) is relatively frugal when it comes to free agency and trades so that we have money/draft capital to resign our guys and sign difference makers when the time comes.
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Gotcha. I took your comment to be that the Bungles had built their team similarly to Ballard in that it was entirely through the draft with holes being plugged by bargain FAs.
Agree that I don't want Ballard to throw our future away by trading away all of our early draft picks for high priced veterans like the Rams have done. But I (like most of us) think he's needs to open up the checkbook a bit like the Bungles did and bring in some difference makers to fill holes rather than just band aid with bargain FAs like he usually does, which obviously hasn't worked out too well.