07-18-2022, 03:02 PM
(07-18-2022, 02:14 PM)J24 Wrote: Come on dude you have to look at from the players perspective a bit. If the dude gets seriously injured or worse the Bengals can just cut him if they want too. The dude is looking out for his best interests and quite frankly looking for proper compensation.
Exactly.Impossible for any of us to put ourselves and our rather meager way of thinking (no insult to anyone but none of us are professional athletes in this rather lucrative industry with multi billion dollar TV contracts, huge streaming deals, billionaire owners,etc.).
Bates has been a hell of a player in this league for years and, yes, he while he was rather pedestrian to the naked eye a season ago,the cream rose to the top when it mattered most in the post season and he was an absolute TOP DOG in this defense when they needed him most. When an athlete sees their peers that they are an equal to, better than or maybe just a tick below then they certainly want/feel they deserve to be in that neighborhood of compensation.
Does ego play a part? You betcha it does and it's hard not to have an ego to some degree when a guy like Bates has played football in front of millions of people and billions of people from a TV standpoint.There's a reason only 1400 or so people in a world of multi billion get to play football.
