re: Dalton and Bengals agree to 6yr $115 mill extension

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What would you rather have? Andy Dalton at 20/year

Or

Tannehill at I don't know guess 10/year (current rookie contract is 3/year) with 10/year left over to put people around him?

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I would take Tannehill in this scenario but this is the wrong question to ask IMO. Tannehill is not available right now and wouldn't have been when the time came to deal with Dalton's contract.

The question should be what could the Bengals have done instead of paying Dalton all this money. Like someone else said, you could draft a QB next spring, franchise tag Dalton and try to groom the rookie for a year.

Maybe that will work but maybe not. It's a gamble. The Bengals chose to pay to go with a known quantity in Dalton. Yeah he's only slightly above average but you can win in this league with a slightly above average QB.

My question would be how this affects their salary cap.