Great Breakdown of Tee Higgins deal

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(03-22-2025, 05:57 PM)NUGDUKWE Wrote:  
Yes they did pay the players. They just do it in a way that stops them from adding more talent. Call it cheap or not but we value money over winning. Perhaps that's not cheap but perhaps the should invest in something that's not a sports franchise because one of the goals is winning.

I have called for them to be more creative with the structure of contracts for years. It is their business model, nothing to do with cheap or in. my opinion not wanting to win. If the Super Bowl winner was based on the amount of money teams spend in FA, then the Pats, Chargers and Bears should win the Super Bowl in 2025, they sent the most.

The Bengals have a plan, sorry it is not your plan or someone else's plan (whomever whined about the cap space use) to win it all in 2025. I still feel we can be a very good team in 2025. The Bengals may or may not add more pieces in 2025. I think they will, you think they can't afford more because of poor cap management. We differ on  FO management. I hate dead cap. Bengals FO hates dead cap. Other teams have 25 to 35 million each year in dead cap by kicking the can down the road, you applaud them.

I will take our cap sitaution over the Saints and other teams. Click on teams and look at their dead money and then tell me you are still impressed they don't have that money to spend to. make their rosters better.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/_/year/2025

Bucs - over 30 million in dead cap space and over the cap right now so they have to do more maneuvering to get under the cap
Rams - over 45 million in dead cap space and over the cap right now so more maneuvering needs to be done toget under the cap
Bills - over 30 million in dead cap space and have to maneuver to create more cap space
Texans - over 36 million in dead money and have to maneuver to create more cap space

Jets - have no franchise QB and heading for over 70 million in dead money in 2025 and a large dead money hit in 2026 as well

I call this gross mismangement by this teams.

I always taught my children, never use a credt card unless you can pay the bill in full by the end of the month. There will be a time if you borrow money you can't pay monthly when you lose your job or an emergency occurs.

I do believe Bengals could structure deals so more of the contract is pushed down the road. But, it has nothing to do with cash, it is an accounting method and nothing more. To say if they had more cap the team would have brought in THE RIGHT PLAYERS WITH THE EXTRA CAP is pure speculation.