AJ Green Signing Deadline

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(07-15-2020, 12:52 PM)Au165 Wrote: Maybe. The only issue is if a season doesn't occur at all, or a severely shortened one, it could have catastrophic impacts on the cap and in turn cause a reset of contract values. Even spreading the shortfall over multiple seasons would result in a far flatter than projected cap situation than anyone had planned for. With AJ's age, I am surprised he didn't take the stability of a contract over the unknown of the current situation. I do wonder if the team pulled back their offer in light of everything going on.

If that was the case, then he would have signed the FT the second the Bengals jerked the long term deal off the deal.  That way, he would be covered for next year if the season gets cancelled. If the Bengals pull the FT because they're worried about the season being cancelled and being stuck with AJ's $18 mil FT next year with a flat or possibly reduced salary cap, he will basically be another year older and will not have played for 2-1/2 years.  He will have zero leverage and no chance at a decent multi year deal.

The other possibility is that despite what he says, he just doesn't want to be here anymore.