02-17-2022, 03:48 PM
(02-17-2022, 02:39 PM)CincyWestside Wrote: The minimum for me to be satisfied:Disagree with this. Do you want a front loaded contract where his cap hit is say $15mm this year or $5mm this year? You want $5mm this year, so you can spend another $10mm elsewhere on a player or two that you think gets you over the top to win the SB.
First, sign Bates long term. Front load the contract so we are hampered when it comes time to pay Burrow, Chase, and Higgins.
I would rather have 1 SB win and 10 crappy seasons, vs 0 SB wins and in the playoffs 10 times.
Go for broke the next 3 years while Burrow's contract is cheap. Try to win as many SB's over the next 3 years as you can, and in years 4 and 5 when you are in cap he!!, you just rework the team. Heck, Tom Brady went 9 years in between SB wins-- and that was because they didn't run Marshawn Lynch from the 1 yard line, then 2 years later had Atlanta choke by getting sacked out of FG range which would have ended it. If not for that, he may have gone 14-15 years between SB wins.
When you have a 3 year window-- you maximize that window bc they don't come around every day. Even for Tom Brady. This means larger signing bonuses for players and we shall see if the Bengals FO has the fortitude to go out and try to win 3 SB's by spending money and allocating that cap space with lower cap hits over the next 3 years to go for the win.
Honestly, this offseason will tell us how badly do they (the front office,) want to win.
