Why the **** is Jessie Bates not signed yet?

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(07-25-2022, 10:03 AM)ochocincos Wrote: 1) What was the guaranteed money offered? If it was low, then it's not a good contract by ALL indications.
2) After seeing what some of these other safeties get paid really well but arguably worse than Bates (Marcus Williams), I think someone would give Bates the contract he's seeking. It might even be less in terms of years and/or total salary but higher guarantees than what the Bengals were willing to give.

The GTD money was trash. Only 17m (when he will make almost all of that GTD on a one year franchise tag!)

13m GTD on one year

Or

16m/year for 4 years but only 17m GTD

It was a decent annual value, but the bengals missed big.