05-19-2022, 10:10 AM
(05-19-2022, 09:36 AM)ochocincos Wrote: But yet his postseason PFF was 90.0 last year...
Bates admitted during the regular season last year that his contract situation was affecting him.
He was vastly underperforming during (at least) the first half of last regular season.
He then started turning it around, and he was a key factor in the Bengals making it to the Super Bowl.
It’s ironic that he’s in the situation because we’d basically have to sign him if he didn’t play so ass in the regular season.
Playing contract war with a guy on a down year is way different than playing contract war with a guy who just had an all pro year.
-Housh
