{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

[chrisball96]

(04-02-2025, 08:34 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Is that really how you want to treat the two-time reigning sack leader, who's done nothing but produce for your team? Freaking pay the man!

I don’t disagree with you here. But I do think the Bengals likely see it as “we’ve got him under contract” and they know they can tag him after next year as well. So they view themselves as having all the power in the situation, and we know that in order to budge, it’d be out of loyalty. And we know that the Bengals don’t usually operate out of loyalty.

They extended Tee in large part due to public pressure by Chase and Burrow (IMO), and I am not sure they’d have done it otherwise. All that to say that I think Trey deserves to be paid, but I believe the Bengals see it as a business situation where they have all the leverage, and they aren’t giving that up easily or at all.

Now what would be VERY interesting is if Burrow used his bully pulpit to do on some media outlets and speak about Trey the way he has in the past about him, and on Tee’s behalf. That might change the dynamic a bit for this round of the negotiations.