Tee is now the only tagged player without a new deal

[Joelist]

All you need to do is look at the guaranteed amount and compare it to both how much guaranteed $$$ the team is on the hook for this year and compare the total to Operating Income. Tee's rumored guarantee ask plus their existing obligations to put money into escrow this year under the funding rule would either be equal to exceed operating income. That can't work. Remember even Burrow on his mega deal agreed to break up the guarantee into annual chunks precisely because of this - the Bengals are the family business and source of income not a billionaire's plaything like the Stains (for example). They don't have a sugar daddy to write huge checks into escrow to cover guarantees. This is why the funding rule has got to go if the league expects to fully guarantee contracts.