Things aren't going well in Cincinnati

[TheWeatherMan]

7 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:

Even if the Bengals trade these players, they’re not trading them to Buffalo. 

Why?  We traded Diggs within conference, KC traded Hill within conference.  

[Boatdrinks]

1 hour ago, TheWeatherMan said:

Why?  We traded Diggs within conference, KC traded Hill within conference.  

Just my opinion. KC didn’t trade Hill to Buffalo, but to our division rival. If Higgins is traded, I don’t think it would be to Buffalo - or KC. 

[Nitro]

Bengals organization has always been tight with money terms in contracts.  I am not surprised by this.  Sit back and watch them unravel. 

[H2o]

11 hours ago, HappyDays said:

 

They can not show up to anything and hold out for an extended period. Higgins can sit out until week 11 (I believe) and still get his year accrued towards FA. Hendrickson can sit out all of TC. If they fine him for, it will only tick him off more. Then you have Chase coming up on his contract as well. Great times at WKRP 

[ProcessTruster]

once a team breaks the bank for a franchise QB, thats when all this kind of stuff starts.    49ers, Phins, Eagles are next on this sh=t storm scenario.   

[Gigs]

12 hours ago, Process said:

Window is closed, that's how this works right?

They peaked when they went to the SuperBowl. The Bills have shown they can turn it on and go deep with shoestring and bubblegum outside of Josh Allen, the Bengals not so much. And Glass Burrow has to show he can play more than one full season in his career. 

 

If the Bengals' window is open, it has a 'no see um' screen in front of it

[dave mcbride]

3 hours ago, Gigs said:

They peaked when they went to the SuperBowl. The Bills have shown they can turn it on and go deep with shoestring and bubblegum outside of Josh Allen, the Bengals not so much. And Glass Burrow has to show he can play more than one full season in his career. 

 

If the Bengals' window is open, it has a 'no see um' screen in front of it

They were better in 2022 than in 2021, actually. The only difference in outcome is that they won an extremely close game vs KC in the AFCCG in January 2022 and lost an extremely close game in the AFCCG in January 2023 (on a personal foul call, of all things).

[Billy Claude]

53 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

They were better in 2022 than in 2021, actually. The only difference in outcome is that they won an extremely close game vs KC in the AFCCG in January 2022 and lost an extremely close game in the AFCCG in January 2023 (on a personal foul call, of all things).

 

The Bengals were incredibly lucky in 2021.  Every Bengal playoff game was incredibly close.  In the wild-card game, the Raiders had three shots at tying (or winning) the game from the Bengals 9-yard line with 30 seconds left.  In the divisional game against the Titans, Tannehill threw two 4th quarter interceptions including one with 40 seconds left at mid field that set up the Bengals game winning field goal and in the conference championship, one could argue the Chiefs were emotionally spent from the 13 second game.

The 2021 Bengals were probably the weakest AFC team in the Super Bowl in about 20 years.

 

Edited April 25 by Billy Claude

[Sweats]

16 hours ago, Virgil said:

I can't fault them for the Hendrickson contact, as he has a deal in place.  Not speaking to Tee in a year, that's weird.

 

In fairness, they have a lot of young talent that deserve huge deals.  Not everyone is going to be happy

 

 

 

 

I've got a feeling that Cincy is just waiting to see how the draft plays out for them before confronting Higgins with a contract.

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

16 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

Isn't Hendrickson the dirty player that deliberately rolled into Allen's leg 2 years ago and then laid a cheap shot on Haushka when he wad with the Jets in 2018?

 

Oh yea... He's a gator roll guy too

[Bermuda Triangle]

15 hours ago, HappyDays said:

 

So this dickweed either wants to stay in Cincinnati and get paid, get traded, or retire?

 

Anything else, Trey?

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

1 minute ago, Billy Claude said:

 

The Bengals were incredibly lucky in 2021.  Every Bengal playoff game was incredibly close.  In the wild-card game, the Raiders had three shots at tying (or winning) the game from the Bengals 9-yard line with 30 seconds left.  In the divisional game against the Titans, Tannehill threw two 4th quarter interceptions including one with 40 seconds left at mid field that set up the Bengals game winning field goal and in the conference championship, one could argue the Chiefs were emotionally spent from the 13 second game.

The 2021 Bengals were probably the weakest AFC team in the Super Bowl in about 20 years.

 

 

The chiefs ran that stupid play before the half that didn't score and ran out of time - which in a 3 point game is kind of important.  

[BigDingus]

Yeah... good luck getting that trade. Ownership isn't going to care. 

[Sweats]

4 hours ago, Gigs said:

They peaked when they went to the SuperBowl. The Bills have shown they can turn it on and go deep with shoestring and bubblegum outside of Josh Allen, the Bengals not so much. And Glass Burrow has to show he can play more than one full season in his career. 

 

If the Bengals' window is open, it has a 'no see um' screen in front of it

 

 

 

 

 

And yet, we can't beat them...........interesting.........interesting indeed.

[Beck Water]

4 hours ago, H2o said:

They can not show up to anything and hold out for an extended period. Higgins can sit out until week 11 (I believe) and still get his year accrued towards FA. Hendrickson can sit out all of TC. If they fine him for, it will only tick him off more. Then you have Chase coming up on his contract as well. Great times at WKRP 

 

I would say that the latter is the cause of the former - the Bengals probably want to negotiate with Chase and then work out other contracts.

JMO.
 

[warrior9]

17 hours ago, KingBoots8 said:

Predicting the Bengals try to package Higgins to Chicago to move to #9 if the right player is available still.
 

Chicago gets: Higgins, #18, #80

 

Cincy gets #9. 

Thats a VERY steep price for a team that has DJ Moore, KA, Kmet and the ability to get a younger play maker to develop behind the two. 

 

For some reason, people CLAMOR over Tee Higgins and he has been the most average WR since he came in to the league and he can't stay healthy. He's never hit 75 catches, he has had 1091 and 1029 as his career highs and never more than 7 TDs in a year. 

 

Giving up #9 for that guy.... seems like lunacy. 

 

Not to mention, Cinci giving up that much to move up 9 spots is even worse. 

[boyst]

Teams can pay aiyuk or Higgins. Or gamble on a draft pick.

 

One or both could move by the end of the draft. 

[ngbills]

OMG. Players want to get paid. What is going on in Cinci...

 

 

[SoTier]

6 hours ago, ProcessTruster said:

once a team breaks the bank for a franchise QB, thats when all this kind of stuff starts.    49ers, Phins, Eagles are next on this sh=t storm scenario.   

 

Pretty much.  Once a team pays their QB, they can maybe sign 1 other first tier (and expensive) offensive player and 1 first tier (expensive) defensive player.  Then they have to make-do with good to decent older veteran players and youngsters on their rookie contracts.   If the QB can't make the guys around him better, the team is in deep doodoo.  

 

Mike Brown aside, there's really no way that the Bengals can afford both Chase and Higgins after paying Burrow.  

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

1 hour ago, warrior9 said:

Thats a VERY steep price for a team that has DJ Moore, KA, Kmet and the ability to get a younger play maker to develop behind the two. 

 

For some reason, people CLAMOR over Tee Higgins and he has been the most average WR since he came in to the league and he can't stay healthy. He's never hit 75 catches, he has had 1091 and 1029 as his career highs and never more than 7 TDs in a year. 

 

Giving up #9 for that guy.... seems like lunacy. 

 

Not to mention, Cinci giving up that much to move up 9 spots is even worse. 

 

Not to mention FURTHER - he's coming off an absolutely terrible season.