Rapien - Bengals Must Tag Tee Higgins

[samhain]

(02-19-2025, 06:59 PM)QueenCity Wrote: Not going to make it's own thread but rumor is Chase wants 40 Mill a year lol

What a huge mistake not giving what he wanted last season.

That's exactly what I was expecting tbh.  I think he'd quite possibly get even more on the open market.  

[Soonerpeace]

(02-19-2025, 06:59 PM)QueenCity Wrote: Not going to make it's own thread but rumor is Chase wants 40 Mill a year lol

What a huge mistake not giving what he wanted last season.

Massive their front office ineptitude is sad and depressing 

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

(02-19-2025, 08:12 PM)samhain Wrote: That's exactly what I was expecting tbh.  I think he'd quite possibly get even more on the open market.  

Same for Trey & Tee. Penny wise & pound foolish. 

[*ochocincos*]

(02-19-2025, 07:55 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Don't we get compensation if he doesn't sign? 

I'm hoping they go tag-and-trade and maybe sign Godwin in free agency or someone else when teams start cutting players.

You mean if he doesn't sign the tag but no one trades for him?

From my understanding, his tag cost will be divided by number of games and Bengals will save that percentage every game he chooses to sit out.
However, that's money gained back during/after the season.
They still have to earmark the entire cap amount heading into Week 1 in the event he does sign.

[ERIC1]

(02-18-2025, 09:29 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: 35$ mil a year is way to much for a #2 WR

and a wide receiver that misses a significant amount of games due to injury

[Tomcat]

(Yesterday, 11:11 AM)ERIC1 Wrote: and a wide receiver that misses a significant amount of games due to injury

We got your point over and over about Tee!

[3wt]

(02-14-2025, 09:20 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Tee might get $30M/per because of supply and demand, but not from the Bengals. The Bengals won't cave to those sort of demands. I love Tee Higgins, but not at that sort of price. The team can easily find an 80% replacement for half of that value.

Problem is that Joe has said that's who he wants.  It's no longer what's financially viable, it's what he has told them he needs to go to the dance.  It has now become a fulcrum for his future in Cincinnati.

They have screwed themselves into a bind.  As everyone else has been saying, if they had negotiated these contracts in time we would have neither the financial crisis nor the threat of alienating their franchise player.

They are in a no win situation, and taking us down with them.  If they tell themselves that they have no choice and "the kid will get over it" they will put him in Carson Palmer territory.

I'm sure there are other issues that I don't know of - but bottom line is they are acting like they are helplessly floundering in incompetence.

It's the bad look that has caused the whole football world to ridicule us.