Duke's thoughts of maybe Trading TEE could be PEAKING at the Combine

[*jason*]

(02-29-2024, 06:30 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Plus the Bengals would have Tee's $20 million to spend on a "proven" FA that everybody is saying the Bengals covet so much. A trade gets both a extra pick and a big FA with  Tee's tag money alone. Still would have the rest of there extra cap money and the added $30 million to spend as well. 

Those that think trading him takes the Bengals out of being a SB contender are just not opening their eyes. Both ways can work, sign or trade. The Bengals can get a very good player for $21 million without question and have an extra late 1st or early 2nd round pick.  

The only thing that will prevent Bengals from being a SB contender is if a tagged unhappy Tee shows up and tries to play safe and not get hurt. 

To me it is simple, sign him or trade him. Holding him hostage is not the right move, holding him hostage a 2nd year is even crueler to him.  We've already seen this with Green and Bates when they just played not to get hurt and mailed it in, and who could blame them for not going all in for a team about to discard them ? 

Tee deserves much better than that anyway.  Don't get why so many are siding with the elite rich over the employee getting what he deserves in his very small window of opportunity called an NFL career. He deserves his longterm contract and the only real question should be is it from the Bengals or not. 

 Either the Bengals can afford him or not.

Rolling in 20 million for the year doesn't seem like siding with the rich to me. Yeah he could suffer catastrophic injury on the tag, but he more than likely won't. Tee Higgins has never made close to that figure and it sets him for life... Well it sets a wise man up for life.

Then people turn around and call Tee's agent a jerk or punk because he goes hard for his client. To me that's siding with the ultra rich owners.