7 hours ago
(07-18-2025, 01:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote:
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.
Everyone is spinning it like this is the norm in all rookies contracts now through out the league.. It seems like you are saying that the Bengals FO is adding extra stipulations or clauses to the guaranteed money that other teams didn't include. Or, other teams included the wording and Stewart is the first on the Bengals that they tried to push it on. If the latter is true then I sort of understand Stewart's stance. Like I said, I'm an old geezer. It's hard for me to follow any of the new contract stuff. Thanks for the clarification or trying to explain it to me.
