Tee vs a NEW D

[samhain]

(12-29-2024, 01:40 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: No team can beat down his door if Bengals tag him while they attempt to sign him to a long-term deal or trade him.

We have too many average players making big bucks.
Hubbard - 11.6 million
Cappa - 10,250 million
Rankins - 12,5 million
Stone - 7.9 million
Moss - 4.9 million

We would create some dead cap, but ass a ton of cash and cap space. We have Sample and Johnson to replace Hubbard. We have Jenkins and Jackson to replace Rankins. We have Chase Brown to replace Moss. We have some young safeties to compete to replace Stone. We would need to add 2 guards via FA or the draft. If we cut all 5, it would create 32 million in cap space to go with the 59 million we have now.

We get a pass rushing DE for 10 million, guys like Clowney seem to always be available. if we focus on stud DE pass rushers, we become much better attempting to protect a lead.

90 million is a lot of cap space. Tee can get paid, and his contract could be structured to use less cap space in years 1 and 2. We know what we have in Tee Higgins, he will not be easily replaced with a plug and play WR2 either in draft or FA. 

I too have been all over the board. I hope we keep him. If not, I hope we tag and trade him prior to the 2025 draft. His value just went up after yesterday.

You are leaving out a Chase extension, which should be mandatory.  

Tag and trade is a fine idea, but if you end up with the tag part, you're still on the hook for a nice chunk at that position.  I do think that this offseason will be an ideal time for a tag and trade.  Less receiver talent available.  Still, you're playing chicken with the league in that scenario.

I also dislike the idea of bringing both top wrs back without extensions.  It's a bad vibe and IMO impacted the early games. Ja'marr's deal needs to get done early in the offseason.  There's no excuse this time.  

I'm. huge believer that an investment in the pass rush will fix most of the issues on defense.  Hubbard should not block anyone in 2025.  It's time to get a real compliment to Trey.  Get opposing quarterbacks under pressure and get the ball back into the hands of your MVP caliber qb.