Great Breakdown of Tee Higgins deal

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(03-23-2025, 12:12 PM)Synric Wrote: The Brown just handed Deshaun Watson another large lump sums to lower the cap hits so they could make Garrett the highest paid non-qb (for a week). Dead Cap and the Salary Cap are manipulated by large lump sums allowing teams to spend well over the salary cap.

Yes, but you want to focus on only one way teams manipulate the cap. The other is adding void years to the deal which has zero to with cash spend. The Bengals could have added up to 5 void years on Chase's contract and 4 years on to Tee's. They did not do and cash had nothing to do with it.

It appears they are doing the same thing of not pushing cap out further by not using either method. But you nd others want to ignore the void year methods a ton of team use to manipulate the cap and has zero to do with cash spend.

I agree the Bengals could easily create more cap room, I don't agree it is because of cash spend. They obviously refuse to use much of any method other than void years on JB's contract.

I also think if the Bengals had 40 to 70 million of dea cap space (less to spend on FA's), they FO would be croticised for it for not having the money to sign FA's or their own. In 2026, we have Trey, Hill. Ossai and others not under contract. So for anyone to say we have no needs in 2026 is also false.