Whitworth-Bengals lowballed

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(12-04-2018, 08:06 PM)3wt Wrote: Which begs the question: why couldn't the Bengals figure this out?

They seem to treat their players like morons.  They disrespect them with their offers and wonder why they want to play somewhere else.  There's no sense of the Bengals figuring out how to meet the players' needs in a way that's mutually beneficial.  They expect the players to fall into line.

They're old school, "Don't let the inmates run the asylum".

But this is a business where you need to figure out what your employees need in order for you to put a product together to please your customer.  In a real sense your employees have become a customer themselves. 

Keep in mind that Whit admitted he wanted to leave when he was set to hit the market.  His agent wasn't likely going back to the Bengals with the numbers being thrown around before FA started.  

The Bengals were likely off base because they overestimated Whit's loyalty to the organization.  From the Bengals' end, the $10 mil deal they offered was a substantial raise over what he was paid the previous year.  Frankly, the fact that they offered a player of Whit's age a raise is very out of the ordinary.  Whit was at the age where you usually start expecting guys to take pay cuts, not ask for raises, particularly when it's a guy you've given multiple extensions to and taken care of financially over the years.