02-16-2025, 12:24 PM
I'm completely schizophrenic about the situation. Logically, it's not great to pay 2 wrs the money that 1 and 5 will demand.
There's just a lot of unknown with letting him go. Yes it frees up cap, but where does that cap go? Are they going to be aggressive? Maybe acquire guys like a Milton Williams or Sweat? Go out and get a real stud safety like Holland? Couple of guards?
Our unknowns that replace knowns haven't exactly gone swimmingly over the last few years. We can stream TEs with the best of them if you forget Irv Smith. The handful of mid free agents last year were righteous trash minus Magic Mike. Still haven't replaced Bates. Tried twice and both guys sucked. No legitimate pass rusher outside of Trey despite spending a first on Murphy.
Bottom line is, I'm not so sure Tee leaving does much for this team outside of removing one of it's best players. It creates yet another hole to fill with finite money and finite day 1 and 2 picks. If there were other young players on the roster to extend then sure. They just haven't done a lot in terms of talent acquisition to give me faith.
I know what Burrow, Chase and Higgins are. They're a legitimately elite offense that wins playoff games when they get there. Selling off a key part of that group to make them less elite is risky. Unless you're bent on building an elite OL (which they have failed to do with every conceivable resource) or defense (will take more than one offseason), then letting Tee go makes the team worse.
Who have they signed or drafted over the last 3 years that amounts to the impact Higgins has on their success? Mims is a good player and Mike is a solid TE. Both of them combined do not provide the value that Tee does.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, unless this front office gets a lot better real fast, letting Higgins go is much more likely to hurt than help in 2025.
There's just a lot of unknown with letting him go. Yes it frees up cap, but where does that cap go? Are they going to be aggressive? Maybe acquire guys like a Milton Williams or Sweat? Go out and get a real stud safety like Holland? Couple of guards?
Our unknowns that replace knowns haven't exactly gone swimmingly over the last few years. We can stream TEs with the best of them if you forget Irv Smith. The handful of mid free agents last year were righteous trash minus Magic Mike. Still haven't replaced Bates. Tried twice and both guys sucked. No legitimate pass rusher outside of Trey despite spending a first on Murphy.
Bottom line is, I'm not so sure Tee leaving does much for this team outside of removing one of it's best players. It creates yet another hole to fill with finite money and finite day 1 and 2 picks. If there were other young players on the roster to extend then sure. They just haven't done a lot in terms of talent acquisition to give me faith.
I know what Burrow, Chase and Higgins are. They're a legitimately elite offense that wins playoff games when they get there. Selling off a key part of that group to make them less elite is risky. Unless you're bent on building an elite OL (which they have failed to do with every conceivable resource) or defense (will take more than one offseason), then letting Tee go makes the team worse.
Who have they signed or drafted over the last 3 years that amounts to the impact Higgins has on their success? Mims is a good player and Mike is a solid TE. Both of them combined do not provide the value that Tee does.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, unless this front office gets a lot better real fast, letting Higgins go is much more likely to hurt than help in 2025.
