Rapien - Bengals Must Tag Tee Higgins

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(02-14-2025, 09:20 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Tee might get $30M/per because of supply and demand, but not from the Bengals. The Bengals won't cave to those sort of demands. I love Tee Higgins, but not at that sort of price. The team can easily find an 80% replacement for half of that value.

Problem is that Joe has said that's who he wants.  It's no longer what's financially viable, it's what he has told them he needs to go to the dance.  It has now become a fulcrum for his future in Cincinnati.

They have screwed themselves into a bind.  As everyone else has been saying, if they had negotiated these contracts in time we would have neither the financial crisis nor the threat of alienating their franchise player.

They are in a no win situation, and taking us down with them.  If they tell themselves that they have no choice and "the kid will get over it" they will put him in Carson Palmer territory.

I'm sure there are other issues that I don't know of - but bottom line is they are acting like they are helplessly floundering in incompetence.

It's the bad look that has caused the whole football world to ridicule us.