(03-18-2025, 07:32 PM)Bronxbengal Wrote: People bitching and moaning about signing Tee unbelievable.  GM wannabes

(03-18-2025, 07:40 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I think its just something very new. No team has ever had that much money invested in a qb and 2 wrs...by far.

We've seen the correlation of QBs on rookie deals getting to SBs. This is exact opposite.

Time will tell how it works out.

(03-18-2025, 06:29 PM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: That's shaky at best, unfortunately. I like Battle in the run game but not so much in coverage. Stone scares the shit out of me too!

I do like the young CBs though and let's not forget that Dax was drafted a Safety. Different DC may have a different opinion of where he fits best. 

(03-18-2025, 06:18 PM)Housh Wrote: That would’ve made our defense top 5?


Iv been seeing the media say the dumbest shit ever in regards to us signing Tee and Chase.


If you are saying we would’ve been able to get a big fish you are talking about Milton Williams

So that’s 1 guy. Even if we had Milton Williams it’s not like he turns us top 5 by himself.


You could also say maybe with the 28M we could’ve gotten 2 mid tier guys. Like a Chase Young and a Jevon Holland.


Yeah our D would likely be better but 2 mid level guys ain’t taking our D into the top 5.







I guess I’m saying Iv seen ppl say we could’ve done so much more to help the defense with Tee’s money….

Ok give me the exact moves then. It’s everyone saying we messed up but not one media pundit has put together a plan with the 28M that would’ve taken our D to new heights. Mofos just wanna complain about us making a move right after they complained that we weren’t making moves.

(03-18-2025, 08:02 PM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: Dax to me had a noticeable improvement in play when he finally moved to the slot. Unfortunately we got a very limited look at him in that position before he was injured.

(03-18-2025, 08:17 PM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: I agree! Just pointing out that his switching back to S isn't out of the realm of possibility if needed. 

(03-18-2025, 06:59 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I think I'd tell him to put on 5-10 pounds and just play LB for us.

(03-18-2025, 07:59 PM)jj22 Wrote: Our safety situation is a major red flag. Reminds me of 2023 when they forced a bad situation on us and we all knew they weren’t ready to fill bell and bates. And somehow the Defense got worse in 2024.

Missing out on the FA safety class was a misstep. Forcing the drafting of one early. 

Watts is the day 2 pick. We need a starting caliber safety. 

(03-18-2025, 08:12 PM)Stewy Wrote: Your topic is fine but your failure is for giving two fuks what the national media says.

(03-18-2025, 06:34 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: The debate has been in the forum for months. I was on the side of use the Tee money and fix the trenches. I do agree the FA class is so bad and unpredictable it would be a huge risk. Last year our biggest FA signing (most money spend) was a dud in Rankins.

Williams for 21 million, maybe a great deal, but he only played in 50% of the defensive snaps on a very good DL so teams could not afford to double team him.

Chase Young, another possibility, but now if those 2, we are over budget already.

Fries another overpay at 21 million.

In the end, the decision was made. Bengals know they have 3 huge weapons for at least 4 more years, add a young RT and that is 4 huge weapons in the fold.

The key will be hitting on the mid level FA signings like Slayton, doiing better drafted NFL ready players right now and development of the existing roster and rookie by the coaching staff.

I did love Tobin's comment, we have our 2 WR's, other teams can go find their own. Peopl love to blast the FO for being cheap andthen switch gears when they are not cheap and sign Tee changing Bengals overpaid or he is bad investment.

Bengals have proven they are far from cheap signing Chase and Burrow to not one of best, but best contract for their positions in past few years. I hope our fans can try another attack line for the FO, saying they are cheap is lazy and wrong.

(03-18-2025, 07:21 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: We will never be able to say if not signing Tee would have been great or failed. All we can do now is wait and see the results. But, the key also is using the resouces (lefover cap and draft) wisely to get us big and win the Lombardi.

(03-18-2025, 10:02 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: The Bengals could have signed Justin Reid + Josh Sweat for about the same price as signing Tee Higgins at his base price not counting incentives which could push Tee's contract higher.  

Also if you sign Sweat, you dont need to spend 7 million dollars to bring back Ossai on a 1 year contract so that saves you 7 million dollars which could have been spent toward a guard like Zeitler.  There are many possibilities freeing up that money would have allowed + getting a 1st or 2nd round draft pick

(03-18-2025, 10:15 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: This should be a hard lesson to learn for the Bengals front office.  Get your deals done early.  They cost themselves millions by not doing so.