The Cincinnati Bengals resigned right tackle Bobby Hart to a three year $21 million contract this offseason and although a lot of the fans aren't happy with the decision Bengals vice president Troy Blackburn defended the decision while taking a couple of shots at the fans.

After the signing, a lot of fans took to Twitter to show their displeasure with the organization's decision and one fan took at as far to say this was the worst news he had received all day even though he also found out that he had gotten laid off.

Blackburn doesn't really understand the criticism and wonders who the fans expected to play on the line if it wasn't Hart. Via ESPN.

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“For those who say you shouldn’t have signed Bobby Hart, who is going to play right tackle? Who? Oh, maybe you’ll draft one in the third round and he’ll come on. Really? You’re going to bet your season on that? We may still draft somebody. We haven’t had the draft yet. But you just can’t criticize. In our business you have to solve the problem. If you’re not going to play him, tell me who? Trent Brown at 17 million? Really? A seventh-round draft pick? Let go essentially by his team. Really? We can’t go to WalMart and buy off the shelf. A high quality starting right tackle? That doesn’t exist (in free agency). You have to deal in the universe of options you have.”

“We ended up signing eight guys. That’s probably above average. Were they perfect? You’re not going to get perfect. … There aren’t perfect options out there. We asked Willie Anderson if he could go to a time machine and come back at age 25. We’d love to sign him, but you have to deal in your universe of options. I think the data would say we signed more guys than most in line with the cap that we talked about. If there are surprises out there we’ll try to be flexible and aggressive, but normally there are no surprises out there.”

Hart did really struggle last year and resigning him to such a big deal does seem like a bit of a head scratcher but it appears that people inside the Bengals organization have more faith that Hart can take another step forward this offseason.