03-23-2025, 03:07 AM
I think the Tee Higgins contract is pretty terrible for the Bengals, at least from the standpoint of roster building. The first-year cap hit is dramatically higher than it needs to be, at no benefit to Tee Higgins. The only thing this achieves is reducing the immediate cash burden on the front office. It's total crap.
They deserve to be criticized for that, and people claiming "this is how every team does it" are just flatly incorrect. No it isn't. That can easily be demonstrated, and Goodberry did a nice job of demonstrating it.
"They have to reach the minimum in cap spending" is also a horrible refutation. That's the whole damned point. Use that added cap space to sign additional free agent(s) and/or extend Hendrickson. Either way they hit the minimum. That argument is a non-starter.
It's good they extended the receivers. They'll have a decent chance in 2025 to make a run. But the Higgins contract is most absolutely not optimized for building the best team. Call a spade a spade.
They deserve to be criticized for that, and people claiming "this is how every team does it" are just flatly incorrect. No it isn't. That can easily be demonstrated, and Goodberry did a nice job of demonstrating it.
"They have to reach the minimum in cap spending" is also a horrible refutation. That's the whole damned point. Use that added cap space to sign additional free agent(s) and/or extend Hendrickson. Either way they hit the minimum. That argument is a non-starter.
It's good they extended the receivers. They'll have a decent chance in 2025 to make a run. But the Higgins contract is most absolutely not optimized for building the best team. Call a spade a spade.
