Bates admits to being in a bad head space

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(11-15-2021, 05:48 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Bates = Money > Winning, apparently?

You'd think being on a team with a shot at a winning record for the first time in his career would be enough to keep his head in the game. 10 weeks into the season is an awful long time to not focus on what you need to be focusing on and letting it significantly affect your play.

Not saying he has to play for the love of the game, but he already has millions, and he was all but guaranteed at least another $13.5m from a franchise tag as a bare minimum if he played decently.

There's no guarantee the Bengals franchise tag Bates.
They've never paid a safety $8+ mill a year.

Also, Bates has "only" accumulated $6.8 mill in his career. While that sounds like a lot, we don't know how much he's already spent and we don't know his investments, so we don't know if he'd have enough to comfortably live on for the rest of his life.