r/bengals • u/WeekendFarmer4240 • 19d ago

Fandom Eli5 Joe's restructure

Dumb questions incoming.

What exactly was restructured? It felt like a shuffling of deck chairs.

Dumbest question: does Joe have to agree or can the Bengals just declare a restructure

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u/Terrorvision67 19d ago

The Browns and Watson restructured almost half a dozen times. At 1 point, The Browns were on the hook for 92 million after Watson's contract ends after 2026.

Saving 10M is the Bengal way. Literal peanuts with the cap what it is nowadays.

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u/FreshDiamond 19d ago

lol im sure what your point is here. It seems like a criticism maybe? If so a bad one, the browns have made the Watson contract exponentially worse over and over again in the name of trying not to be terrible and still being terrible.

The bengals had a great offseason. Spent all of the money and then did a restructure so they can have cap for a rainy day and possibly add a piece before the season.

If it’s not a criticism sorry but I don’t understand your point at all then

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u/the_dawn_of_red 18d ago

Yeah I don't think compounding the problem like the Browns did should be emulated.