07-17-2023, 01:39 PM
(07-17-2023, 01:06 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: I doubt he'd have been cut this year. Unless we had Cook in bag already, none of the other FAs are an upgrade. All our backups are unproven.
What leverage did the Bengals have to force a player under contract to take a 40% pay cut when they were already under the cap? The only way I think that happens is to give Mixon and his agent a choice: 1) take a pay cut or 2) be released and try to sign with a team for more than they were offering.
As I mentioned previously, Giovani Bernard is an example of how those contract negotiations go. It is possible the Bengals were bluffing, but I doubt it.
