(02-19-2025, 06:59 PM)QueenCity Wrote: Not going to make it's own thread but rumor is Chase wants 40 Mill a year lol

What a huge mistake not giving what he wanted last season.

That's exactly what I was expecting tbh.  I think he'd quite possibly get even more on the open market.  

(02-19-2025, 06:59 PM)QueenCity Wrote: Not going to make it's own thread but rumor is Chase wants 40 Mill a year lol

What a huge mistake not giving what he wanted last season.

Massive their front office ineptitude is sad and depressing 

(02-19-2025, 08:12 PM)samhain Wrote: That's exactly what I was expecting tbh.  I think he'd quite possibly get even more on the open market.  

Same for Trey & Tee. Penny wise & pound foolish. 

(02-19-2025, 07:55 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Don't we get compensation if he doesn't sign? 

I'm hoping they go tag-and-trade and maybe sign Godwin in free agency or someone else when teams start cutting players.

You mean if he doesn't sign the tag but no one trades for him?

From my understanding, his tag cost will be divided by number of games and Bengals will save that percentage every game he chooses to sit out.
However, that's money gained back during/after the season.
They still have to earmark the entire cap amount heading into Week 1 in the event he does sign.

(02-18-2025, 09:29 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: 35$ mil a year is way to much for a #2 WR

and a wide receiver that misses a significant amount of games due to injury

(02-20-2025, 11:11 AM)ERIC1 Wrote: and a wide receiver that misses a significant amount of games due to injury

We got your point over and over about Tee!

(02-14-2025, 09:20 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Tee might get $30M/per because of supply and demand, but not from the Bengals. The Bengals won't cave to those sort of demands. I love Tee Higgins, but not at that sort of price. The team can easily find an 80% replacement for half of that value.

Problem is that Joe has said that's who he wants.  It's no longer what's financially viable, it's what he has told them he needs to go to the dance.  It has now become a fulcrum for his future in Cincinnati.

They have screwed themselves into a bind.  As everyone else has been saying, if they had negotiated these contracts in time we would have neither the financial crisis nor the threat of alienating their franchise player.

They are in a no win situation, and taking us down with them.  If they tell themselves that they have no choice and "the kid will get over it" they will put him in Carson Palmer territory.

I'm sure there are other issues that I don't know of - but bottom line is they are acting like they are helplessly floundering in incompetence.

It's the bad look that has caused the whole football world to ridicule us.

(02-20-2025, 04:34 PM)3wt Wrote: Problem is that Joe has said that's who he wants.  It's no longer what's financially viable, it's what he has told them he needs to go to the dance.  It has now become a fulcrum for his future in Cincinnati.

They have screwed themselves into a bind.  As everyone else has been saying, if they had negotiated these contracts in time we would have neither the financial crisis nor the threat of alienating their franchise player.

They are in a no win situation, and taking us down with them.  If they tell themselves that they have no choice and "the kid will get over it" they will put him in Carson Palmer territory.

I'm sure there are other issues that I don't know of - but bottom line is they are acting like they are helplessly floundering in incompetence.

It's the bad look that has caused the whole football world to ridicule us.

1)I really think you need to step back and get some perspective..Joe Burrow will continue to play for the bengals and give a 110% with or without higgins..I would imagine that Burrow knows we need significant help in many positions and that money is tight in the NFL.. 2) other teams face the same questions the Bengals have regarding signing popular players and in their cities their fans chime in..just like we do...This is not solely a Cincinnati thing 3) The bengals front office has not done this or that up until this point in time..and because we dont know what is happening ..this does not mean they are floundering 4) the whole football world is not ridiculing us..as a matter of fact most players  and coaches in the NFL and fans in the NFL know that with a couple of more pieces on defense that our Bengals are a pretty great football team

(02-19-2025, 08:46 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Massive their front office ineptitude is sad and depressing 

take away Burrows injuries the year before last and the beaucoup  number of injuries that we had this last year...the front office has done a good job of putting a team together

(Yesterday, 10:44 AM)ERIC1 Wrote: take away Burrows injuries the year before last and the beaucoup  number of injuries that we had this last year...the front office has done a good job of putting a team together

well.. except for draftiing horribly