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(11 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote: We could do that...and i have no doubt we eventually will, but you can't compare the drama between what's happened with Trey to the "drama" that happened with Watt. They're not remotely close.
This reminded of a thought i had recently after watching a video that's probably old of Houshmanzadeh talking with whatever steelers linebacker that had played for the bengals for a year. They were talking about if they ever got frustrated when theyre agents negotiated. Tj did and the Steelers linebacker didnt long story short. But my thought was that we've all seen examples of poor communication between team and players but that it's most likely the Bengals FO just isn't good communicating with agents. Smoothing things out and keeping a positive relationship even when negotiations are far off and going to take a fair amount of time to get worked out. Perhaps this seems trivial but if you piss an agent off or make him think it's impossible task or the value of the player just isn't there that will trickle down to the player and put a strain on the relationship. I dont think this means just constantly giving in to whatever demands as the said linebacker came to the Bengals and Watt took a fair amount of time to complete his contract. But we have to do better at evaluating the talent and the need or lack there of for the team. Let Housh walk and signed 2 players for what ended up being 2 years for more money than he was asking for.
