Alex Cappa only found a new house only two days after the Bengals of Cincinnati cut him to be one of the worst guards of the 2024 season. On Wednesday, it was reported that he had joined the Raiders of Las Vegas, who enter a new era under the head coach / Managing Director in Pete Carroll and John Spytek:
Unfortunately, little money and black fandom were enthusiastic:
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No more anger and disappointment can be seen below:
“Bad decision,” deplores one of them.
“I swear it is better to improve than this next week …”, asked another.
“Yikes, this guy has been terrible for two seasons,” he said.
According to his agency, his contract is $ 11 million over two years.
Summarize the horrible 2024 season of Alex Cappa as he joins the raiders
It was not a secret for anyone that Bengals had one of the worst offensive lines of the Joe Burrow era, even when they made the AFC championship match in 2021 and 2022. However, no individual illustrated this notion more strongly than Alex Cappa in 2024.
This season, he had one of the worst projections that a guard ever had, taking an unwanted triple crown of pressures (51), Hurries (36) and the bags (8, equally with Shaq Mason). Just less than a month after the team finished 9-8 and a de facto qualifying series, GM Duke Tobin, addressed the need to improve at Kelsey Conway in Cincinnati Enquirer:
“This is a place on which we are concentrating. We will continue to work with guys that we have on the list, and we will try to assess how to improve with guys who are not currently on the list, and whether young guys from the project, whether free agents, we will examine all the options, but we will add to this group.”
One of these projected movements was to cut Alex Cappa, who had been predicted by Paul Dehner of athletics and Chris Roling of the USA Today. But just before it happened, the new trainer of the offensive line Scott Paters was optimistic about his chances, saying during the week of the combination:
“By just looking at some of these things, we can improve better with regard to protection, because the most important thing is to try to keep Joe (Burrow) healthy and safe and right there. We therefore target this area a lot of time regarding development.”
Instead, the product of Humboldt’s state is heading for the Nevadan desert to potentially replace Cody Whitehair as the so-called “Swing Guardian”.
Edited by Dipayan Moitra
