Great Breakdown of Tee Higgins deal

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(03-22-2025, 04:48 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: I read some atorney who is a bengals fan break down the hits for the chase and higgins contracts. He implied the begals FO purposefully and unnecessarily inflated their cap hits. Which means they limit themselves on being able to spend more money. And the only conclusion that makes sense is either, they are dumb, or they do it to not have to spend more cash. Pretty eye opening

This attorney is not real bright. 

I understand your need to validate the FO is cheap, maybe your frend also, but the team's choices are pay me now (take caps hit now), pay me later (push the cap down the road) or a combination of (pay me now and pay some later).

It appears they decided to in Tee's case to pay me now and pay me later. If your friend was accurate in his opinion, he would know the Bengals could have taken a lot more of the cap hit in 2025 than 23 million. He was slready a 26 million cap hit so we are have equal cap space on his contract, we did not lose cap space in 2025 with his new contract as your friend is suggesting.


Chase very similar. They are only taking on 23 million in cap space in 2025. The net of 2 new contracts in 2025 is 2 million all on Chase's cap hit.
Prior to contract Tee was 26.2 million and Chase was 21.6 million or combined 47.8 million, after two contract Tee is now 26.6 and Chase is 23.6 or a combined 50.2 million.

Looking to 2026 Tee is only 19.3 million (less than 2025 by 7.3 million) and Chase is 26.6 million or 3 million more. Combined they are 4.4 million less in 2026 than in 2025.

This also takes int account the reports on Spotrcac are accurate, we do not know with 100% certainty they are accurate. 

There is no evidence the team attempted to use up 2025 cap space as the attorney suggests so they had anexcuse not to add more players. It also makes no sense because any cap savings they have is rolled over to 2026 anyway.