Very Important Year for Jonah Williams

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(06-25-2021, 10:27 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Fwiw, Fred is the one who introduced the 18 million figure (what he ultimately got).  I don't think PDub claimed anywhere that the Bengals were willing to compete with a similar amount. 

I believe he only claimed he was part of a plan, which he obviously was or they wouldn't have offered him a contract.   Whether that amount was for 1 year 12 million, or 4 years 72 million is irrelevant.  At one point the Bengals were very much entertaining the idea of signing a high dollar WR in free agency.

My comment really had nothing to do with PDub or who made the claim, just the obvious take that it would have been dumb.

I have no doubt they were looking to sign a good WR for top dollar, it's just that their idea of top dollar and the recievers idea of top dollar were vastly different.