Jefferson to Bengals rumors

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(03-13-2024, 12:37 AM)kevin Wrote: 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.

There is no "Bengals Fans can think that".  I gave you facts.

The franchise tag is the 2nd most important tool to maintain parity in the NFL behind the draft.  Fans of a small market team with a broke owner would be so dumb to hate the tag.  It was made for them.

The players union just enhanced the tag requirements in the last CBA, you are not keeping up.

Higgins did not DEMAND a trade, he requested one, those are very different. 

Comparing Pickens to Tee is amateur at best.  Tee is not a malcontent like your examples.

We are not trading Tee for JJ.  That would be insane, but if we did, I doubt very seriously it would be Tee and two 1sts, that was suggested by some random on Facebook.