Great Breakdown of Tee Higgins deal

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(5 hours ago)NUGDUKWE Wrote: Sure it hurts. They took a swing and it was a massive miss as far as production. It will hinder them in the future but we have yet to see it and if I had to venture a guess it won't be a debilitating impact. For as massive as a contract and as massive as a miss as it was to potentially not have that big of an impact shows that it's not that big a risk to push the chips in. If the Browns take a QB with they're 1st pick and he works out as far as they give him the 2nd contract you probably never really feel the financial impact of the Watson deal. 

Mike Brown cannot take huge swings; he's the only owner in the NFL whose worth doesn't start with a B.

Folks like Jimmy Haslam, Jerry Jones, and other billionaire owners can. Mike Brown cannot as he can't assume the debt.

IMO the Bengals are doing an outstanding job of acquiring and keeping talent. There's a reason they're accused of following "The Steelers Model" and it's because the Steelers are the 2nd poorest. And lately we've been doing a much better job of putting talent on the field than them. 

Folks are going to disagree "we need to go all in", but I have a feeling many of those same folks would be shaking their fists at the Bengal's FO when the rent comes due. 

You want a team w/ an owner willing to take huge financial risks, you may have to swap jerseys. 

I'm not the biggest fan of retaining Tee for the price, but I damn sure ain't mad at the contract structure 

[Frank Booth]

(4 hours ago)bfine32 Wrote: Mike Brown cannot take huge swings; he's the only owner in the NFL whose worth doesn't start with a B.

Folks like Jimmy Haslam, Jerry Jones, and other billionaire owners can. Mike Brown cannot as he can't assume the debt.

IMO the Bengals are doing an outstanding job of acquiring and keeping talent. There's a reason they're accused of following "The Steelers Model" and it's because the Steelers are the 2nd poorest. And lately we've been doing a much better job of putting talent on the field than them. 

Folks are going to disagree "we need to go all in", but I have a feeling many of those same folks would be shaking their fists at the Bengal's FO when the rent comes due. 

You want a team w/ an owner willing to take huge financial risks, you may have to swap jerseys. 

I'm not the biggest fan of retaining Tee for the price, but I damn sure ain't mad at the contract structure 

lol 

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(4 hours ago)Frank Booth Wrote: lol 

1/15/2017

[Frank Booth]

(3 hours ago)bfine32 Wrote: 1/15/2017

thinking the bengals have more overall talent than pittsburgh reminds me of a certain date in 2001

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(3 hours ago)Frank Booth Wrote: thinking the bengals have more overall talent than pittsburgh reminds me of a certain date in 2001

IDK about 24 years ago so that's why I said lately, so we'll just disagree.


I will say it is refreshing how much better you think Zac is than Tomlin. 

[Bengalbug]

(3 hours ago)bfine32 Wrote: IDK about 24 years ago so that's why I said lately, so we'll just disagree.


I will say it is refreshing how much better you think Zac is than Tomlin. 

Nice one. Boxin him into a corner. I got my popcorn and can’t wait to aeee where this goes.

[BenZoo2]

(2 hours ago)Bengalbug Wrote: Nice one. Boxin him into a corner.  I got my popcorn and can’t wait to aeee where this goes.

Me too.  I’d like to see frank provide more explanation to his lol comment 

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(4 hours ago)bfine32 Wrote: Mike Brown cannot take huge swings; he's the only owner in the NFL whose worth doesn't start with a B.

Yes it does. AND it's a crooked number as well. 

[Frank Booth]

(2 hours ago)BenZoo2 Wrote: Me too.  I’d like to see frank provide more explanation to his lol comment 

what comment, the 2001 thing? Yea, saying the bengals have more talent than pittsburgh is pretty much a tragedy. You get the picture

I have no idea what his 2017 date implies though

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(1 hour ago)Frank Booth Wrote: I have no idea what his 2017 date implies though

Pretty sure that date is the last time the Steelers won a playoff game. They're in a big time rut of being just good enough to not be bad and need to rebuild or make big changes, but never good enough to be anything other than disappointing pretenders, and it's great.

[Frank Booth]

(1 hour ago)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Pretty sure that date is the last time the Steelers won a playoff game. They're in a big time rut of being just good enough to not be bad and need to rebuild or make big changes, but never good enough to be anything other than disappointing pretenders, and it's great.

oh

still, the bengals have had a worse roster than pittsburgh since 2023. Especially in 2024. I dont think its a debate

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(2 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote: Yes it does. AND it's a crooked number as well. 

If you include the value of the team; of course that doesn't change the fact that's he's the poorest owner in the NFL.

Many owners do football as a hobby; it's the brown's livelihood. They cannot afford the escrow nor put the team deep in debt like other NFL owners.