09-06-2024, 03:41 PM
(09-06-2024, 03:25 PM)Au165 Wrote: That's some pretty bad logic. Teams engage with guys early all the time, I have never heard of it triggering a holdout. I am sure the Bengals would have liked to get a deal done this offseason at a fair number. I don't think they were tripping over themselves to overpay him so this idea that just because they want to engage it means he gets whatever he wants or he holds out is just...weird.
Thr number they offered at the beginning could have triggered rhe hold-in. He was asked if it felt like they bent over backwards to get the deal done and he replied "Now it does".