Bengals are nowhere close to deals with Trey, Tee or Ja'Marr

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(Today, 01:35 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: If so I stand corrected. I looks like for Chase, yes. Trey, no. Apologies. 

Here it is: 

https://thenoise.com/bengals/bengals-insider-perfectly-breaks-down-how-team-can-keep-chase-higgins-hendrickson-and-still-have-money/

All we have to do is guarantee $$ into future years. Though if we are willing to take a bigger hit in 2025, the hit will be lower in going forward. 

Skimmed through it... It's a whole lot easier to make it work when everyone signs for less than market value in your theoretical.

In that video he has...
Tee for $25m/yr
Trey for $27.5m/yr
Chase for $35m/yr
....That's about $13m/yr short of reality.

Also noticed with the Chase extension, the cap hits over the 5 years (and 1 void year) he provided for his scenario only add up to be $140m "like the Jefferson deal" which means he forgot the original $21.8m he's owed in 2025 for his 5th year option and spread it out as if 2025 was $0. If you look at the Jefferson's cap hits they add up to almost $160m because of his $19.743m 5th year option that the 4yr/$140m deal was added onto.... so even if Chase accepted only 4yr/$140m for an extension, his numbers provided are still too low.

He also has Tee, Trey (who accepts a 2 year extension instead of 3), and Chase all accepting a lack of guaranteed money on the back end.... 
-Chase's final two years he has $68m of entirely un-guaranteed base salary which is one more unprotected year than Jefferson got.
-Trey has zero guaranteed salary after Year 1. 
-Tee has zero guaranteed salary after Year 1.

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So yes, if we get them all to take less than they want, and give them less guarantees on base salary that we heavily backload and leave unprotected, and in at least one players' case give him one less year than he wants, and erase the cap hit from Chase's 2025 season.... then yes, it's super easy. Thanks Goodberry!