(07-26-2021, 03:31 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: So.......any news on Austin Reiter?

(07-26-2021, 03:49 PM)Whatever Wrote: With one of my employers, I actually declined a raise and told them to split it up amongst the group of people I had under me because a couple of them were ready to leave and it would have been difficult to find replacements and get them trained to their level in a reasonable amount of time.

I know people that have worked for struggling companies and stayed on despite not getting paid for weeks at a time because they loved the work and the people and the people they worked for.

Those are examples of loyalty.  Loyalty really doesn't exist in the NFL unless you're willing to retire rather than leave. Polamalu retiring to create desperately needed cap space for the Steelers, now that's loyalty.     

You're example is also kind of bad.  You're comparing a guy who had made $50+ million to a guy that hasn't even made $5 mil.

(07-26-2021, 03:31 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: So.......any news on Austin Reiter?

(07-26-2021, 04:43 PM)bfine32 Wrote: He feels disrespected

(07-26-2021, 03:05 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Fwiw, that's the exact argument I made.  I think my original reply to him is a page or two back if you want to see how that developed.

He questioned how much money Whitworth needed, and basically insinuated he was greedy or selfish.  So I replied that it would be nice if he applied that same thinking to the family and their refusal to build an indoor facility.

(07-26-2021, 05:06 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Dude, don't worry. That indoor facility is coming. 




In about 5 years. 

(07-26-2021, 03:31 PM)Whatever Wrote: I have no problem with him deciding to leave for more money.  I will never hold that against anybody.  

My issue with the guy is how he conducted himself after he left. 

(07-26-2021, 05:08 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: In Cincinnati?

(07-26-2021, 04:40 PM)mikey6866 Wrote: why would career earning matter at all?  A low ball offer is still a low ball offer.  Why would bates or whitworth or any other player take tens of millions less than what their worth for "loyalty".  Loyalty only enters the equation when your comparing 2 similar deals.  We didnt offer Whit in the same ball park.  It doesnt matter if i made 5 million or 500 million Im still not going to just take half of what im worth out of loyalty.  Nobody would.  If the bengals offer was within a few million of the rams whitworth would have been retiring as a bengal.  He left because he was potentially leaving tens of millions on table if he didnt take rams offer.  I dont care who you are, nobody is leaving that kind of money on the table for "loyalty".

Polamalu retired for a multitude of reasons and creating cap space wasnt one of them.  The steelers forced him into retirement basically because he didnt want to be released and play anywhere else.  Its pretty widely known Polamalu was very upset with how steelers handled it.  He didnt want to retire but he had no interest playing for anybody else and his choices were retire now or we are releasing you.  He chose to retire.  He certainly didnt care about the steelers salary cap when he did it.

(07-26-2021, 05:57 PM)Whatever Wrote: The Steelers pressured Polamalu to retire because if he had been cut the acceleration of his bonus money would have eaten a ton of the cap savings.   He was well within his rights to tell them to cut him so he could sign elsewhere (he was worth a lot more than $0), but instead retired because he didn't want to play anywhere else.  He wasn't happy about it, but he was loyal to the Steelers.

(07-26-2021, 03:31 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: So.......any news on Austin Reiter?

(07-26-2021, 06:26 PM)G man Wrote: Probably won’t hear anything until after the obligatory steak dinner

(07-26-2021, 07:11 PM)BoomerFan Wrote: How high do you think the Bengals should we be willing to go on signing Austin Reiter to a contract? I'm guessing the team would be willing to do around $5 million and he would be looking for double that. On the other hand it is late in FA so if he wants a chance to play at all he really can't be that picky.

I know we have ~$20 million left in our cap, though we like to roll over $10 million if we can and save some for injury signings as well. The latter is the more important part of this equation.

(07-26-2021, 07:11 PM)BoomerFan Wrote: How high do you think the Bengals should we be willing to go on signing Austin Reiter to a contract? I'm guessing the team would be willing to do around $5 million and he would be looking for double that. On the other hand it is late in FA so if he wants a chance to play at all he really can't be that picky.

I know we have ~$20 million left in our cap, though we like to roll over $10 million if we can and save some for injury signings as well. The latter is the more important part of this equation.

(07-26-2021, 07:11 PM)BoomerFan Wrote: How high do you think the Bengals should we be willing to go on signing Austin Reiter to a contract? I'm guessing the team would be willing to do around $5 million and he would be looking for double that. On the other hand it is late in FA so if he wants a chance to play at all he really can't be that picky.

I know we have ~$20 million left in our cap, though we like to roll over $10 million if we can and save some for injury signings as well. The latter is the more important part of this equation.

(07-26-2021, 06:26 PM)G man Wrote: Probably won’t hear anything until after the obligatory steak dinner