Is Shemar holding out?

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(Yesterday, 03:52 PM)BacknDaDey Wrote: I still don't understand why Stewart hasn't signed yet.  If you are not a so-called "problem child", why worry about that language in the contract, if you are not a "screw-up" or "knucklehead".  I can see some injury stipulations in the contract maybe holding up signing or something stupid like "you are not performing up to the standard of a 1st round draft choice so pay back some money.".  Seems to me that Stewart really doesn't want to be a Bengal or the Bengals now don't really want him.  Maybe I'm just an old naive fart who shouldn't care about what the reasons are for him not being signed.

Hobspin really won that messaging war with some folks, didn't he? Continuing to inaccurately paint it as that. It is much more than that. It's an expanded Carl Pickens clause being forced in with zero compromise being given back in return. A clause the Bengals didn't have on any of their previous rookie wage scale players, and sure as shit didn't try to force in on the Chase, Higgins, Burrow, Gesicki, etc recent contracts.

The Bengals chose exactly one player as their guinea pig that they wanted to give a worse contract to, and they want to do it without giving anything back to offset that. He didn't even say he would be unwilling to sign that, just that he'd be unwilling to sign it without the NORMAL compromise in return that more of the guaranteed money gets paid out sooner. The Bengals refuse because they don't want compromise, they want submission.