Is Shemar holding out?

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(6 hours ago)Timanky12 Wrote: Seems like every year the Bengals have a player or two, that they can’t sign or extend their contract.  Why are we always one of those teams who can’t get it together?

The FO has 2 jobs.
1. Putting together a competitive roster an coaching staff.
2. Putting the roster together financially to meet the needs of the cash flow and profit targets.

Most fans want to ignore number 2 or assume the Bengals are the only team with this issue. Yet, we have seen others like the Super Bowl winning Chiefs have a start player sit out camp and week 1 go onto win the Super Bowl.

This year we have 3 teams including us who yet to sign their 1st round pick, we have teams that have not signed non first round picks yet. Watt, Ramsey, J, Smith, McClauren and others missed manadory camps. I would argue most teams did not have 3 stars in the same year attempting to get deals done like happened to us in 2024 with Tee, Jamar and also Trey asked for a new deal.

So yes on the surface it appears the Bengals FO may be the issue and no doubt they are a huge part, but the 3 players and their agents also play a huge part, many are willing to give the latter a free pass and throw their frustartions 100% on the FO in my opinion.