Stewart is signed!

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(Yesterday, 11:07 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: You may indeed be right. 

The Bengals were one of the last teams to implement that language for first round picks. It is more the norm these days. 

I think the FO was on the right side here. The lion's share of the blame belongs to Stewart & his agent. And maybe $550k more upfront hadn't been enough to get them to sign before now. 

Or maybe it hadn't been offered until now. We'll never know. It just seems like such a small thing to prevent him from signing for so long. If that is all it took (big if), then it seems like it should have gotten done sooner.

I’d expect the agent ( looking to save face) suggested the extra first installment bonus money to save face and make him look better in the agent and twitter universe and to his client. Some fans are saying good grief why didn’t you offer that before MB? Whereas more likely if Hiller settles for what was always on the table Shemur loses confidence in him. This way he comes back to Stewart and says it was not all for naught. With Trey’s situation I think and I mean your first draft choice at a position of need being ridiculously hardball doesn’t make sense even for Cincy. Except tge character clause that they have got to set precedent for next year and beyond. All the posters trying to put blame on Cincy I truly believe are misguided in this instance. I mean Hiller’s initial comments were they just wanted the language of Mims contract. That was their goal not 500k more.