Jefferson to Bengals rumors

[kevin]

(03-12-2024, 11:27 PM)casear2727 Wrote: Seriously Kevin?

#1.  The agent works for Tee, he is not Tee's boss. 
#2.  If Tee isnt traded he will play for the Bengals.

Tee has made 9M in 4 years, he will not turn down 21M this season.

If Tee decides to sit out, do you know what happens?  You probably do not.  I will tell you:
A). We roll his 21M to next year's available cap.
B). We can tag Tee next year as his first tag, and tag him again in 2026.

The new CBA makes it extremely onerous on the player if they intend on sitting out. 

Unless Tee is traded, he will be playing for the Bengals.  He likely sits out OTAs and camp, but that is not a big deal.

Bengals Fans can think that.  However the way Higgins is demanding traded, I think the odds are that we have seen Higgins play his last games for Bengals.  Also keeping him and rolling his salary into next season does not help Burrow on pass targets to throw to.  Plus I think the idea that a team can keep an unsigned player in slavery year after year will become an issue with The Players Union.  Curt Flood in baseball kind of ended stuff like that. In the end, if he doesn't want to play here, do as they did with Carson Palmer and get him to another team.  When Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson was on ESPN trying to force Bengals into trading him, I always thought Mike Brown should have traded him that day. What is the point of pulling the slave owner stuff, and having a team of players that don't want to be here, and cause Bengals to be Last Place doormats again. ...Higgins wants out, and I say get rid of him.  

Also, I have seen players who thought  they were too good to play in Cincinnati.  Often they go to other teams and never do anything.  Carl Pickins stands out to me on this. I see no point in having players who don't want to be here. That is a good way to turn this Super Bowl team back into Last Place Bungles joke of the NFL.

So on this, I'm for getting rid of Higgins now.  I just don't like trading away 2 years of first round draft picks and trading away the future, the Browns proved that is a mistake. On that fans thought trading all those picks for Watson was great for Browns. No, it was great for Houston Texans.