(02-14-2019, 11:37 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote:

I saw another beat writer yesterday said in the range of $750,000. They may have been willing to go up for Grantham, but I don't think Rex Ryan would be in the picture whatsoever with that type of number or even double it.

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(02-14-2019, 11:37 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote:

I saw another beat writer yesterday said in the range of $750,000. They may have been willing to go up for Grantham, but I don't think Rex Ryan would be in the picture whatsoever with that type of number or even double it.

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(02-14-2019, 11:40 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Welp, some smart guy may have been right about price being an issue. 

(02-14-2019, 11:43 PM)McC Wrote: Who is this chick anyway and why is she suddenly THE expert on the matter.  The one dude already proved her ass wrong.  Man, the amount of hand wringing is downright sickening.

I might just have to come back in September when the tears have dried.

(02-14-2019, 08:49 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I know I'm in the minority, but I loved Rex with the Jets. I found him highly entertaining, good for the sport, and I respected that he was trying to pump his guys up.

Again, I know I'm in the minority on that though. 

(02-14-2019, 11:40 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Welp, some smart guy may have been right about price possibly being an issue. 

(02-14-2019, 11:53 PM)Synric Wrote: Todd Grantham wouldn't have come to cincy if it wasnt a competive offer and UF wouldn't have had to offer more money to keep him if it wasnt a competitive offer.

(02-14-2019, 11:54 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Some guys interview just to get more money from their current team too.

(02-14-2019, 11:57 PM)Synric Wrote: So you are saying the Bengals offered him 600k less than UF and that scared them into offering him more money?


I doubt it.

(02-15-2019, 12:01 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I said nothing about salary. No one knows what he was offered. My guess is that it would have been more than he made at Florida.

But, it's not like he has to take the offer directly to them and show them. It happens a lot in college where a coach gets and offer and it gets raised.

Does it make you feel better to think that he turned us down because of an aging defensive line and poor linebackers?

It's getting insane on here. Coaches don't get hired and people want to put out press that the Bengals passed on them. Or that we offerred them a lot of money.

No matter how you slice it, we're down to candidate number 5 or 6...which is INSANE.

(02-15-2019, 12:06 AM)Synric Wrote: He turned them down for more money he leveraged it out of UF. He's joined lesser programs with alot less talent I seriously doubt he turned the Bengals down because of the roster. 

It was impossible to judge the Bengals defensive roster in less than a day...

He could look up their pff scores lol.

(02-14-2019, 11:49 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: I’m with you.

lets go get a ***** snack

(02-14-2019, 11:53 PM)Synric Wrote: Todd Grantham wouldn't have come to cincy if it wasnt a competive offer and UF wouldn't have had to offer more money to keep him if it wasnt a competitive offer.

(02-15-2019, 02:10 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: He was funny - sometimes unintentionally - but man was he charismatic. He had their focus and attention.


Idk man. From what I've seen through the years, you meet to discuss whether you're a fit, THEN you talk $$$, not the other way around.

I'm not saying we definitely low balled him, but it's a possibility. Especially when you've got rumors floating that $750k is what we're looking to spend. 

As for Florida offering him a raise, that doesn't necessarily mean the Bengals offer was close. The NFL brings with it potential for Grantham to be a HC again. So just threatening Florida with leaving for an NFL team could've gotten them to bring out more money...regardless of what Cincy offered. Of course, on the flip side of this, it's possible that Grantham simply used the Bengals as leverage to get a bigger payday. So maybe the amount of our offer was moot.

Again, all speculation.

(02-15-2019, 12:47 PM)McC Wrote: Didn't you post a tweet from crazy Becky about a lowball offer that Fletcher Page debunked that she chose to ignore and wasn't  the 750 a number she pulled out of her empty head?

And didn't she also say Rex would never work for what the Bengals would pay?

Personally, I don't think money would be the deciding factor for Rex.  He wants to coach and nobody else is calling.

(02-15-2019, 12:06 AM)Synric Wrote: He turned them down for more money he leveraged it out of UF. He's joined lesser programs with alot less talent I seriously doubt he turned the Bengals down because of the roster. 

It was impossible to judge the Bengals defensive roster in less than a day...

He could look up their pff scores lol.

(02-15-2019, 12:57 PM)RunKijanaRun Wrote: I would love to have Rex. Just give him a decent salary and a subscription to Fancy Feet Magazine and he'll come running. 

(02-15-2019, 01:10 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: Yeah, he was able to leverage the Bengals offer/interest into an extension and pay raise at Florida. Before he talked about the roster as being the reason, he had cited Mullen, family and Gainesville as the factors why he stayed. Then his new deal with UF was announced the following day. 

I'm not sure how serious he was about coming to Cincinnati in the first place. Sounds like he wanted to stay in Florida all along, and negotiating with the Bengals led to UF sweetening his deal there.

(02-15-2019, 12:47 PM)McC Wrote: Didn't you post a tweet from crazy Becky about a lowball offer that Fletcher Page debunked that she chose to ignore and wasn't  the 750 a number she pulled out of her empty head?

And didn't she also say Rex would never work for what the Bengals would pay?

Personally, I don't think money would be the deciding factor for Rex.  He wants to coach and nobody else is calling.