Report: Bengals are trying to sign Tee Higgins long term

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(03-11-2024, 03:45 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: Your chance to win a ring is probably less without Burrow as your QB. Zac Wilson? OK. He didn't know AROD was going to go there. he showed his cards immediatley, it's just about money, maybe we should only pay NFL players that win rings and everyone else a minimum.

If you're just playing NFL for the money (which maybe many of them are), us fans are left with basically nothing, we're going to the deathbed with zero rings from our fav team too, which then suggests what are we even watching for lol. All smoke and mirrors.

But let's say you earned 150 million in your career or you could have earned 125 million and had a ring (or a better chance at one), how many of us would have said 150? With investments that thing is already rolling out of control. I think we'd want to look down at our hand and see a ring. Not a pointless one when you're 35 trying to grab one on a veteran contract, something you actually contributed to lol.

I'm personally not in a job that "pays me as much as possible", and I'm not making anywhere near 30-50 million a year.

That's a huge assumption to start off with.

Uzomah who you made the focus of your post was heading into his age 29 season. In just 2 years in New York, he nearly doubled his career earnings from the previous 7 years.

Tee Higgins has currently earned $10m and probably lost 40%+ of that in taxes. His career could end in 2024 at any given time. The Bengals would move on from him without a second thought if he couldn't play football anymore. He watched a man die on the field, he was teammates with guys who saw a man paralyzed on the field. His mind isn't thinking of some nonsensical $150m vs $125m, his mind is thinking $31.8m vs $60m ($10m + whatever guarantees he would get on a contract extension). Guarantees over multiple years is all you can trust.

Tee Higgins isn't us. You have 50 years to work if you want to, you're not going to suddenly become unemployable in your career field in your 30s. He also has a talent that is incredibly rare and incredibly in demand from people who are willing you pay tens of millions of dollars. We don't. Trying to put regular folks in NFL players shoes is always a silly endeavor.