Why the **** is Jessie Bates not signed yet?

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(04-20-2022, 02:24 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: If Bates does not sign the tag, Bengals could tag him again (be just like tagging him for 1st time), FO has control of these situations, not just ours but others. The life span of an NFL player is not long, so if I am the player, I would not give up 8 million or 13 million to prove a point. Bell tried something similar, now he is an old and useless RB instead of making tens of millions, he gave up a lot of it.

Bell won the standoff with Pittsburgh.  He sat the year and they didn't tag him the following year.  He then became the 2nd highest paid RB in the league and got more guaranteed money than what Pittsburgh's entire offer was.  

The Bengals have a Burrow extension looming next season.  Does anyone think they will set aside that much cap room to play a game of chicken they lost the previous year?  The team has the option to tag him again, but it's not really feasible.