08-11-2021, 02:00 AM
(08-10-2021, 12:05 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The bigger the deal the more complicated it is to work out. With a player as young as bates the number of years and amount guaranteed is more importanr than just average per year.
On another Bates thread, you asked what if Bates is asking 20 mil ? Well, the highest paid Safety in NFL gets 15 mil, so 20 mil would be too much.
However on what if's, What If Mike Brown is only offering 5 mil, when the Top Safeties in NFL are getting 10 mil ? Then the fault would lie with Mike Brown again going Cheap.
If Bengals and Bates Agent are to agree on a contract, it has to be at least 10 mil, but not 20 or even 15. 10 to 13, somewhere in there. If Mike Brown who says Why Should I Pay A Guard, feels the same way about Safeties, this team is forever doomed to last place. Other teams will grab Bates and pay him in March. Other teams do pay Guards and Safeties, because other teams are not content with Last Place.
Hopefully Bengals sign him. If the goal is to build a team around young Joe Burrow, then you keep your young 24 year old Defensive Star.
ESPN claims Bengals will not sign him. Sports Illustrated says Bengals will. Let us hope Sports Illustrated is correct. Now Sports Illustrated says it is up to Katey Blackburn, but I disagree. Every time Bengals hold a press conference it is still Mike Brown like the great dictator and very much in total control.
1968 Bengal Fan
