04-14-2022, 01:33 AM
(04-14-2022, 01:16 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Win the Super Bowl at all costs. The Bengals have a 2 year window here where their QB is not going to be making $50m/yr and none of their 3 very good WRs are going to be making $25-30m/yr.
In 2024 that changes. Do everything you can to win now.
2024 Bengals FAs
DJ Reader
Tyler Boyd
Chidobe Awuzie
Tee Higgins
Jonah Williams
Logan Wilson
That will happen right when Burrow's cap hit will massively jump up (fair assumption he gets a contract after 2022, 2023 should still be reasonable) and Ja'Marr Chase will become eligible for an extension. After then Burrow and Chase will be combining to make probably $80m/yr. It will be much much harder to put as top-to-bottom talented of a team out there then.
You have a window now, don't squander it, and don't dilute it to try to make it stretch out longer because those windows can close fast regardless. Win in 2022, win in 2023, worry about anything else after then.
I don't agree with Leonard on a lot of stuff, but he is dead on here.
Burrrow may never have 3 WRs this good ever again in his career. And no matter how great a QB is he is still better with 3 great WRS.
