Geoff, Why are there not more Bengals in the Hall of Fame? Living in the Dallas area, I constantly hear about the lobbyists that are twisting arms of the voters for Cowboys. Do the Bengals have promoters? Why not the Brown family? Michael Gray, Grand Prairie, TX
MICHAEL: Certainly down through the years Bengals.com has promoted the careers of several worthy Bengals with the full embrace of ownership. There has been no lack of promotional efforts. You can see that in Google.
As a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee, Bengals.com has spent years lobbying fellow voters for not only senior candidates Ken Riley and Ken Anderson, but modern era players such as Willie Anderson and Corey Dillon. I wouldn't call it arm-twisting, though.
Here's why there is only one Bengal (Anthony Muñoz) in the Hall of Fame. And people are sick of hearing me say it. The Hall has too many good players from great teams and not enough great players from good teams. That's why the Hall is overloaded with Cowboys from the '60s and '70s while the '70s and '80s Bengals have no one but Anthony.
Since the salary cap has been in around, how often have the Bengals been under the cap? How much cash was saved in that period? And what happens to that money? I assume the Brown family pockets the difference. Is this their only income? Bernard Meleski, Plain City, OH
BERNARD: The Bengals have been a high-spending team under the salary cap system. Down through the years we have shared with readers sources ranging from the NFL to the NFL Players Association to Spotrac.com, etc., all of whom make clear that the Bengals have spent more than most teams throughout the salary cap era, and have been roughly the 10th highest spending team in the NFL (depending on your metric).
Last year was no different with massive contracts for A.J. Green, Geno Atkins, William Jackson III, Carlos Dunlap, Tyler Boyd, Joe Mixon, as well as the additions of Trae Waynes, D.J. Reader and Vonn Bell.
According to their calculations, the Bengals have been under the salary cap by about $10 million total over that entire time period. A remarkable feat for anyone that's done a budget. To put that in perspective since the advent of the cap, the total salary cap during that period of time for each team has been more than $1.5 billion. So that means that the Bengals have spent about $1.49 billion and have been at the cap essentially every year. Amounts that don't get spent during any one time period are carried over to the next time period, per collective bargaining rules, so the money always stays dedicated to the team.
With players like Reader, Waynes and Bell playing defense at the same time, they're banking on the investments to look even better off the paper and on the field.
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