Bates is communitcating with Dax Hill

[BFritz21]

(07-28-2022, 08:24 PM)pally Wrote: Bates isn't under contract therefore he cannot be traded.  He won't get traded unless he signs with the Bengals first and agrees to a contract with the new team PRIOR to the trade

No other team is going to offer the kind of money we did, so we're kind of screwed because he likely won't agree to the sign and trade without the other team offering him more.

We could hope that a team makes an offer with incentives in the contract, but I doubt he takes it if guaranteed money was the deal killer with us.