02-01-2024, 08:26 PM
(02-01-2024, 07:28 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Can't they tag him and then play him this year and then let him walk and get a comp pick? I was under the impression that was sort of business as usual for the Bengals front office. I mean, it's not like they're going to fire themselves if they get "nothing" in return.
I may be letting my memory get in the way of the facts and stats, I just feel like Mike Brown takes a bit of a "we want you to stay here so we are going to proceed in the manners in which we have control and it's not up to you right now" stance on this stuff.
I think we tag him and he plays and he may be miffed about it, but he will play and as I've stated before Burrow is going to help Tee look like the type of #2 WR too many NFL teams are desperate to pay and crown as their #1 for the Bengals to compete contract-wise. That's free agency for ya, you can never compensate for situations where desperate GMs who won't be around to suffer the contract/trade if it goes bad make big splashes. How many NFL teams could make Tee their #1 WR after he puts up another good year with Burrow? That's why if we want to keep Tee it's probably going to require paying him like a #1 WR, because at least 1 GM out there is going to really NEED him to be a #1 WR in 2025.
That's the other side of having a FO that can't get fired. We don't have a lame duck GM here making insane trades and contracts he won't be around to suffer through, but we also can't act like the Bengals' FO simply CAN NOT let Tee walk for nothing...because they can. Mike Brown could trade Tee Higgins for Johnny Manziel and nothing would happen to him.
They could. The big difference between some of the guys they've tagged in the past and Tee is that there would be a ton of teams that would be interested in trading for a young, #1 WR. Bates was never going to bring back a first rounder. Tee would.
I would be more than happy if Tee was traded and we got a first or early 2nd for him. I'm just not in the camp of letting him walk and possibly getting a late 3rd (basically 4th round) pick for him.
