Chase not Practicing

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(08-30-2024, 09:12 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I heard a caller and the hosts discussing this yesterday on Moving the Chains. Miller said the market for WR's with the cap going up will soon be 40 mil, and if they sign Chase now for four or five years at what he's asking, we'll be glad later (it's not lost on me that last week they said the WR position was going the way of the RB). What I would have asked them if I was on the phone is "If the Bengals give in to him now with two years left on his rookie contract, and give him his 30+ million a year, what's to keep him from pulling this same crap year after next when somebody else gets 40 mil?" It's time for all teams to start standing their ground and holding players to their contracts.

Your logic has a big hole.

You can't argue that teams should hold players to their contracts when teams are free to refuse to honor contracts whenever they wish.  I mean, the Bengals didn't honor the contracts of some 3 dozen guys they let go in final cuts, just for starters.

The only way the owners have a moral high ground when it comes to holding players to contracts is if they make all contracts fully guaranteed in the next CBA, which will never happen.

In this case, we're dealing with a player who's current deal wasn't negotiated in good faith.  It was a slotted "take it or leave it" deal after being drafted.  That's a big reason there's more urgency in the Chase camp.