Will Trey skip mandatory practices next week?

[Luvnit2]

(10 hours ago)NUGDUKWE Wrote: How can you ignore that we could've lowered Tees and Chases cap hit this year instead of raising them. That we front loaded heavy cap hits on all the other players we signed. We could easily be sitting here with an actual starting caliber FA guard, trey and probably a safety signed and be no worse off.

Not signing Trey does piss me off but at this point it's more about us repeating mistakes. Trey is just another player that is too good to trade but not good enough to pay. I also think we are repeating the mistake of getting accustomed to the talent we see and undervaluing it. Trey led the league in sacks when has that happened in recent memory. That is not easily replaced and certainly not with a player that had some of the worst production data at his position in the last 25 years. 

I do get the argument of waiting until the season gets under way. The problem is I know the Bengals will do nothing if the season starts and a player or position group is underperforming.

You want to discuss contract structure, that is a different conversation. If you want to call the team cheap when they paid out a ton of cash in 2025 and are normally at worst in the middle of teams cash spend is a different argument. The cash spend makes your afrument a bad one, they are not cheap.

They chose to pay me now with Tee and Jamar contracts, they spent the money and that structuring does not make them cheap. You also assume their plan (not your plan) was to do it so they could ot spend more in FA or on Trey, but at the same time if they extend Trey for his demands they have the cap space in 2025 to do it. Trey simply can't get Trey to compromise.