JoeyB willing to restructure

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(02-06-2025, 02:14 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yuuuup. It's not any form of sacrifice or compromise at all. It's not like he's taking a paycut or anything, so it's not news.

The Bengals were already going to be cheap when it comes to guaranteed money because of it having to go into escrow or being paid immediately. Restructuring is just more money that needs to be paid now on top of Chase's guaranteed money, Hendrickson's guaranteed money, Tee's guaranteed money, and now Burrow's restructured bonus.... and we haven't even begun to add anyone to actually improve the team yet. So I don't see the Bengals FO suddenly pulling $300m in liquid cash out of their asses and either spending it immediately or putting it into escrow.

"cash strapped" is such a terrible term to use with revenue sharing and the massive mountains of money the NFL makes every year. In the last 3 year alone, the Bengals have received over 1B dollars from the NFL. They've owned the team since its inception. Does anyone really think this org ever operates at a defecit? Ever?

They have plenty of money and plenty of that money could be put in escrow easily. All that's doing is moving it around. It's not like they're handing it over immediately to never be seen again. The Bengals value is over 5B now, which is very low if not the lowest in the league, so while they're comparatively poor to the rest of the NFL teams, they're not nearly too poor to be able to put money aside for multiple players. 

The one thing the Bengals absolutely do hate to do is pay someone's contract, when they're not still employed by the team. That's where the snag always comes in. The guaranteed money. They seemingly can't fathom the thought of having to pay someone without some ROI. That's why they hang on to players and coaches way longer than anyone else. They don't want to have to double up on salaries. They will wring every available dollar from a contract before moving on, with very limited exceptions.

btw, this isn't a lecture @ you. I'm just replying to this post after reading and getting thoughts from several others.