Higgins Hamstring again, may not play

[Tony]

(09-07-2024, 11:14 AM)casear2727 Wrote: What surprised me was slapping the franchise tag on Higgins and making him one of the highest paid WR's in NFL for one season.  

Tee's salary this season is below his current market value.  Not sure how you dont know this?



If they so make this contract with Chase, do you realize how much money they will be paying Chase and Higgins in 2024. 

Combined, they will like have a cap hit UNDER $34M.  


Top players hate franchise tag

So?  Owners hate holdouts.  Fans hate ticket pricing.   The franchise tag is in their contract that they signed.  


Higgins spent 2023 limping around saying he couldn't play as he waited for Free Agency

This is an absolute untruth.  Embarrassing take.


No, I'm not surprised Higgins may not play.  Saw this coming when he was ticked off about getting slapped with the franchise tag 

Tee is NOT faking his injury.  Only the most uninformed fans do not realize that the players who do this are the ones waiting on their current team to extend them.  Tee knows the Bengals are not doing this, thus he is rehearsing for the other 31 teams this season.  Faking an injury would be stupid and is very disrespectful to Tee.


 The NFL is amazed Bengals have made both top WR's unhappy.

Neither player is unhappy.  Tee is being paid twice the amount this season alone than he has made his entire career.  Tee may be disappointed but he is not unhappy.   Chase said the contracts were "a little stressful" but was very clear he isnt unhappy.  Do you watch any interviews from the players themselves?

You gotta be one of the biggest Homer's I've ever come across

[jj22]

**chuckles at 1000 yards.

Sure. Your bar is low for supposedly a top receiver. WR1.

I said 900. If 1k sounds better than ok. 

[Sled21]

(09-08-2024, 10:18 AM)jj22 Wrote: **chuckles at 1000 yards.

Sure. Your bar is low for supposedly a top receiver. WR1.

I said 900. If 1k sounds better than ok. 

But he's not the #1 here, is he....

[casear2727]

(09-08-2024, 10:16 AM)Tony Wrote: You gotta be one of the biggest Homer's I've ever come across

Lol,  I slam Mike Brown harder than any other poster here.

What you dont like is that I have way more information than you do and you do not like to hear the truth.  

It's ok, it's why you are always the crazy one saying we suck and will lose on the first drive in every game day thread and I am the one with comments that most respect, even if they disagree.

Levels exist Tony.
 

[jj22]

It was his chance to once again prove he could be (theoretically) but here we are..

For the record I don’t think he’s faking. I’m just coming to the realization he’s damaged goods. And the team should have realized this far sooner than fans. Which means they should have been savvy enough to unload him while his stock was highest.

[Tony]

(09-08-2024, 10:30 AM)casear2727 Wrote: Lol,  I slam Mike Brown harder than any other poster here.

What you dont like is that I have way more information than you do and you do not like to hear the truth.  

It's ok, it's why you are always the crazy one saying we suck and will lose on the first drive in every game day thread and I am the one with comments that most respect, even if they disagree.

Levels exist Tony.
 

We're the perfect balance then.. I can't help 4 decades of Mike Brown has made me a little negative..

[casear2727]

(09-08-2024, 10:12 AM)jj22 Wrote: They should have moved him when they could, knowing he was damaged goods. Hoping wishing and praying they got one more year out of him was a gamble.

A gamble that looks to have failed leaving them with a 900 yard receiver they could have replaced with one of the picks from trading him. 

Yet here we are can’t even lean on him to soften the Chase blow. 

If this was any other team in the division Bengals fans would see the disfunction and swear their  season was lost. A lot of Bengals fans have ignited the signs that this season is about to be a mess. But they’d see he signs if it was another team in the division that had the offseason the Bengals had with all the drama. 

If we didnt tag Tee and Chase goes down we would be left with the worst WR group in the NFL. 

[TecmoBengals]

(09-08-2024, 10:37 AM)casear2727 Wrote: If we didnt tag Tee and Chase goes down we would be left with the worst WR group in the NFL. 

Which we might get to see play out today. 

[Millhouse]

(09-08-2024, 10:37 AM)casear2727 Wrote: If we didnt tag Tee and Chase goes down we would be left with the worst WR group in the NFL. 

At least Burrow would have a good tight end to fall back on, oh wait.

[sandwedge]

(09-08-2024, 10:08 AM)jj22 Wrote: You unload a player as soon as you can who can’t even get out a car without pulling a hammy. Dumb dumb dumb FO.

Knowing Tee will never be healthy (they had three years of hammy issues to know it was chronic and career threatening) and not trading him to the highest bidder last offseason is the biggest blunder we’ve seen since taking Ross over Mahomes. 

If he is damaged goods, you don't think the other 31 teams don't know that? My guess is they did get offers and they were shit offers

[sandwedge]

(09-07-2024, 11:05 PM)samhain Wrote: It's a strange look.  He was smiling ear to ear when they interviewed him the other day.  Feels better than ever.  

I think he's faking as well.  

I think the trainers and medical staff would have evaluated him and would know. 

[jj22]

(09-08-2024, 11:23 AM)sandwedge Wrote: If he is damaged goods, you don't think the other 31 teams don't know that? My guess is they did get offers and they were shit offers

They didn’t necessarily know last offseason, but after last season and this everyone surely knows now. 

So the moment is lost