01-28-2025, 09:53 PM
(01-27-2025, 05:17 AM)kevin Wrote: However your paying over 60 mil to Chase and Higgins plus what they pay Burrow would not allow Bengals to rebuild. The Chiefs let Hill go and continue to go Super Bowl. The Bills let a top WR go and went AFC Championship. The Patriots let many WR's go as they went to many Super Bowls.
For those who say Chase and Higgins are unbeatable, wrong, the Bengals have been missing the play-offs. They need money spent on Defense to get back in play-offs.
The Bengals need to sign Chase long term to go with Burrow. Problem is the Defense gives up more points than Burrow can score, They brought in Golden, so address the Defense.
The Bengals are not winning with Chase and Higgins, so don't think like Bengals. Think like Chiefs who let Hill go, but still keep going Super Bowl as they continue to try to give Mahomes a Defense and Blocking. You might have a point if Chase and Higgins are winning, but they are not. Let Higgins finally go Free Agent in March, sign Chase long term, and move on. The Bengals need to stop beating this dead horse, for if they wanted Higgins they would have signed him long term in 2023.
The window has closed on the 2021 and 2022 Bengals. In 2025, it is time to rebuild a solid team around Burrow to Chase. That is what the Patriots and Chiefs did to keep going Super Bowl. Are the Bengals winning with Higgins, No. So let Golden have the players to compete in the AFC North of tough Defenses. Like Mahomes or Allen, Burrow will get the ball to other pass catchers without Higgins, and like Chiefs the Bengals will be a better team for making changes. Change is a constant.
Should the Bengals pay 20 to 30 million to Higgins, No...Should the Bengals instead spend money on improving the Defense. Yes.....Burrow can not score 50 points a game. However when Bengals had a good Defense, Burrow got Bengals to Super Bowl and AFC Championship back to back years Give Burrow to Chase a solid Defense again. Otherwise hiring Golden is pointless,
Comparing everything to the chiefs is not fair as we’re not the same. The chiefs have one of, if not, the best coaches of all time. They have one of, if not the best QB of all time. Their front office is much better at drafting than ours.
It’s kind of foolish to say, well the Chiefs moved on from their top wr and made multiple super bowls. And also saying, well bengals made the Super Bowl with tee, chase, and Higgins; so that’s the formula. Just because we made one superbowl, it doesn’t mean that is the recipe. The falcons made one superbowl with Matt Ryan and never made it again. The truth is we need really good players. We need quite a few more than we currently have. How do we do that? Well we need to hit on this upcoming draft and get one really good player and one pretty good. We need 2-3 pretty good free agents. If we lose one in Tee, add another number to that list.
I’m pretty torn on this. In a perfect world, I think everyone would say they would tag and trade Tee, and sign the best OL or DL player in FA. I don’t trust the bengals to do that at all. I think the more likely scenario is they would go after 2 B level players to replace that salary.
Considering our history of FA targets and drafting, I lean towards keeping Tee as he is a proven weapon. If Tee wasn’t a Bengal and hitting free agency, and we needed a WR, do you think we would land him? No? Then what makes you think we’ll land the top paid FA DL?
