Keeping Tee Will Have Some Consequences

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(09-08-2023, 03:39 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: I would highly doubt that Conway is lying. It's more likely that her "source" is unreliable. I also think Rapien saying "the Bengals would love to sign Tee long term" can be a bit misleading. Of course they would love to but they may not expect to based on how preliminary negotiations went. To be fair, Rapien also says signing Tee is a "long shot".

Malik Wright isn't a reliable insider in any way, so I don't take what he says with any credibility. 

This is why speculation is kind of toxic. The reporters aren't lying, and they may not even have unreliable sources, the issue can be perception. The Bengals may want to keep Tee in their plans, and think eventually he will accept a deal they want to pay, but one reporter may talk to an optimist in the building who thinks cooler heads prevail and another talks to a realist who understand Tee's agent and the WR market and doubts it actually gets done so they recognize they probably have to plan for life without him.

These things aren't binary as fans make it out to be. Things change, what was the plan yesterday may not be the plan today and so on. I can tell you Joe Burrow's deal was set to be signed by someone I know in the league the week Herbert's was. Burrow got hurt right after Herbert's deal got done and then things went silent. Was it structure that changed, was it guarantees, was it deciding he'd rather wait and see what happens with Tee or other people? Who knows, but things change and that's life...it doesn't mean people are lying (Not directed at you KG).