Tobin on his way out?

[phil413]

(Yesterday, 01:57 PM)jj22 Wrote: I didn't realize a Tee extension was so given around here.

I personally always thought it was an extreme long shot and more likely not (although having him playing on the tag again made sense).

If you all think extending him was always in the plans then they really screwed up by not even negotiating with him last offseason... Or the offseason before that.

Tobin went from "get your own WR" to "there's only so many slices to the pie" to Tee being extended.  We know the agent change and pleasing Chase and thus Burrow were instrumental, but I think most of us understand this did go back and forth. 

After signing Brown Jr. as another big money offensive player I think the goal was to win a ring and then trade Tee like KC did (albeit not the same return) with Hill.  In the meantime, we haven't brought in the young talent on D that needs a extended next year anyway.  

So, Tee is a buffer to get Chase signed and keeping Burrow happy. Being built around Burrow > being built "right".  So, by default Tee became a win/win. It was a process, one that could have been handled better with Chase, Trey and Tee but the replacement plans fell apart as well.