Finding a WR 6'4-1/2" 225 with a 81" wingspan with strong hands & makes incredibly difficult catches and is a total team player, would be almost impossible, that's not even considering the 5 years of chemistry that Tee has built up with Joe & Ja'Marr
@@josephmann8694 so, the obvious answer is to draft a great player. Let him leave when his contract is up, then TRY and find another good player at the same position? When you have a known commodity IN the building?
Joe Burrow does what local podcasters fail to -- call out the front office. That should be the title of this segment. Every one of these programs -- no matter the topic -- needs to remind viewers how disasterous ownership is and has been. It is your job to point that out consistently, not simply echo Joe's statements when it's convenient to do so.
@@WhoDey1968for James they are, I don’t know the dynamic exactly between beat reporters and the team, can they just replace a beat reporter taking shit? I don’t know. But I can imagine they could or Atleast make their job way harder to do.
THAT "You CAN'T Have/Sign BOTH 'Chase & Higgins' AND You CAN'T Have TWO #1 Wide Receivers" IS NONSENSE. The Eagles are PAYING A.J. Brown OVER $30 Million a Year & Devonte Smith OVER $25 Million a Year AND Jalen Hurts NEARLY $50 OR OVER $50 MILLION a Year. Saquon Barkley is the HIGHEST PAID Running Back in the League. AND, theyre Paying SEVERAL Players BIG Contracts to Players on Defense AND AT LEAST 3, NO LESS than 2 Offensive Linemen. The Dolphins are Paying Tyreek Hill $30 to $35 Million a Year & Jaylen Waddle $25 to $27 Million a Year AND Tua IS Being PAID Nearly or Almost, if not Over $50 Million a Year. They're Paying Jalen Ramsey as the Highest Paid Cornerback in the League. AND Several Other Players BIG Multi-Million Dollar Deals. SO AGAIN, THAT'S PURE NONSENSE that the Bengals CAN'T Pay BOTH Jamarr Chase & Tee Higgins AND Trey Hendrickson. AND With them PAYING Joe Burrow $55 Million or So a Year. PLUS, the Salary Cap is Going Up for the 2025 Season and Every Season in the Coming Seasons. The Bengals Ownership has Historically Been Cheap. However, with Joe Burrow Speaking Out, along with the Fans and Media, Enough is Enough - they're Exposed. Finally. At Last.
Don’t keep giving away your best talent. Keep the strength and identity of the team in tact, which is the passing game. Keep Tee. Add 2 new guards. Draft defense. Get a new D coordinator.
These youngsters don't understand how cheap he is. It's a family-run business and it's his sole source of income. He is also the only non-billionaire to own an NFL franchise. As I said before, they must have had to get him drunk to sign the JB contract to begin with. Beyond that, why doesn't JB restructure and share the wealth with all of the teammates that he needs to succeed.
@@80swerethebestMB has had the same mentality as boomer. Same with palmer, dalton…. Have your franchise QB, 1 star WR, and let others walk. Let the defence suffer and cater to the QB. 2015 Defence was probably the best in 30 years and for some reason we are the only team in the AFC north that builds around an offence not defence.
We all need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and realize that, all we have to do, is Joe Burrow the ball and the Time to do his thing. If we give him the offensive line he deserves, the championships will come. Look what he has accomplished without the protection that most quarterbacks with his ability are afforded! He’s been running for his Life since he got here! If he didn’t have to have a running back And a tight end help protect him, there would be two more weapons right there! I don’t care about anything but building an offensive line that gives Joe more than 1.7 seconds, so he can pick apart Any and I mean Any defense in this league!!! Fix the offensive line line!!! It sucks! Has for years. Amazing he’s not a cripple!
I think the Bengals almost have to sign Tee… if not, it just adds ANOTHER need and this team can’t afford that. This team need to almost exclusively focus on the defense during the off-season. On the offensive side, a starting caliber OG is a must… maybe one of the Georgia boys in the draft??
We're right here. Get er done tonight and settle in Sunday afternoon. The only simulation or projection to actually over analyze is quite simple in the end. Were here!
It unbelievable to me that the front office would be posturing to let arguably one of the top 10 wide-outs in the league and arguably part of the most explosive receiving duals in the league, just walk after this season and the Bengals organization will get the big goose-egg for him! Who runs a football franchise like way?
Thank you. I don't see any reason why they should. They have many outstanding issues on defense and need a couple of guards and depth at tackle and prepare for a future center player along with a tier 2 pass rusher, and starters at NT, DT, #1 CB, #1 FS and they need a play for life after Hilton, Bell, and then they need depth at LB, throughout the secondary, and then after that deal with whatever free agents of their own. This offensive core has been together for 4 years now and has missed the playoffs the last two years in a row (if they make it this year it's because other teams failed). I see no value in investing 55+% of the salary into 3 players that net you a .500 record. Burrow has power, particularly in the market. But I hope the Bengals are more than his personal frat house to get his buddies paid.
@@Montrovantisterrible take! We need both chase and Higgins. You have to build the defense through the draft. Not pay for more Geno Stones and Sheldon rankins of the world. Draft, develop and keep your own good to great players. You said pay his buddies lol we drafted those buddies and we need to keep them!
@@theweathrr Why? Why are you paying Burrow 50+ million a year if he needs a 28 million dollar WR and a 35 million dollar WR just to reach an 8-9 record? Even when this team went to the super bowl and the AFCCG they went there because the defense took them. I'm confident you aren't qualified to evaluate a "take."
@ better than being 6-11 with just 1 weapon and a over payed underwhelming defense that you trying to pay for. Look at the chiefs for example, only person making money on that defense is Chris jones. The rest of the money is on offense. Pay for some guards and pay your weapons. Draft defense. Like I said you have terrible takes. Our QB doesn’t agree with you
Have to admit I find the Bengal very funny!! Burrowhead seems so far back. I don't believe there has ever been a team do so much talking, with nothing to show for it. Now that their season is over, they can go to Arrowhead to see how it's done.
At this point the only replacement for Tee is Justin Jefferson. Im not saying that Tee is better than every other WR, but in this offense with Joe he is better than every other WR. Justin is the only WR that can click with Joe right away. On top of that Jamars relationship with Tee could only be replaced by Justin as well.
pay Jamar, he deserves it and re-sign Tee, don't make the mistakes we did with letting Reader and Bates go it definitely impacted the Defense letting go 2 great players
Here’s the thing. The issues with the offensive line and defense that caused the bengals to miss the playoffs despite historic seasons from burrow and chase are going to continue if Burrow has top of the market money, Chase has top non quarterback money and Higgins gets 30 million a year. The trade off will be the defense and offensive line will still be horrible
Bengals front office cannot afford to waste Joe Burrow’s prime years by not keeping his weapons around him now. We cannot afford another rebuild. NO!!!
We have to focus on defense and our pass rush! We make mediocre QBs look like Tom Brady. Strong offense is obviously a need, but better defense has to also be there. Hendrickson can't be the only person who is consistently making plays
We'd better get Chase and Tee back. Our management will be the biggest idiots EVER, if they let either one of them go. Sometimes it's SO HARD to he a Bengals fan...😔
Fully support Joe’s comments, hopefully it makes a difference. But i would push back against the getting the deals done early argument, these players will always want to re negotiate for a fair market value like Trey Hendrickson. So even if we signed Jamaar for $30 million a year ago, after a record breaking season he’s gonna come back to the table and ask for more. Same with Tee. That’s the life of the NFL. But our strategy is constantly draft and develop, keep maybe a star or two at a key position and let the rest walk
Burrow can talk until he’s blue in the face. He said he wouldn’t take every penny so they could keep the key guys together. Then did the exact opposite when he signed the contract! Outside of Mahomes it’s what every QB does. Pushes the market for every penny. Cheap ass ownership almost had to take out a bank loan to do Burrow’s contract. You really think they’re going pay Chase $35M per and Higgins 25-27M per?! Brown can’t afford to put that money in escrow and cut the signing bonus checks. He tried to offer Chase a contract with payments deferred until 2026! Then he went out and won the triple crown.. Hendrickson wanted a new deal, Brown said no. Then he went out and led the NFL in sacks.. what a clown show of a front office and ownership group!! Waiting only costs you MORE money, my 5 year old knows that. LMAO
AJ Brown ($32M per year) also signed early in 2024 as highest paid WR early instead of waiting to get paid more than JJettas and CeeDee.... so can't really compare AJ's approach to his deal with Ja'Marr's approach
Not being willing to spend upfront can always cost more on the back end. We’ve been spending draft capital and money for 10 years trying to fix the O-line because of our unwillingness to spend upfront. Yet this front office cannot seem to learn from their missteps and that why they have not had the success other franchises have had.
Turnovers determines the out come of most games... like the start of this year where offense turns the ball over a lot and we over look them but amplify the defensive issues...
Locked on really out here trying to get ppl to gamble. And turning around and offering “better help” when they lose all of their money and family with a gambling addiction. Come on Lock on, wtf are y’all doing. Pick a side 😂.
Making this offense unstoppable is a lot easier than making this defense good. Sign Tee and Jamarr, spend 2 of your first 3 picks on legit DUDES on the interior offensive line, and this can become a historically lethal offense. Guys....we've still barely seen Joe play behind a competent offensive line. The middle of 2022 maybe, before guys started dropping like flies? High end IOL talent isn't hard to identify, at least recently. You just have to be willing to spend the draft capital. Pressure up the middle cost us the Super Bowl. And the AFCCG. And Burrow's rookie season. It's literally the only thing that can stop him. Quit effing around and get this man some nasty guards
Would Joe take a pay cut to sign a player? So it's none of his business who they should give a contract to. He doesn't own the team and have to pay millions to a player. So I don't understand where he is coming from?
Zac is in year 6. Joe is wasting away in year 5. The only thing this inept front office 🎪 has done is retain a bad head coach and let good players walk. Complacency’s bliss.
Bengals front office needs to get rid of their contract negotiators. Example: Who in the heck thought Sheldon Rankins was a good idea? Dude hops from team to team and hardly ever plays. Big boy called out sick with a tummy ache for the remainder of the season
Even if we make playoffs, hell even if we win Superbowl....we NEED to can Zac Taylor. Bring in Brian Flores!!!!! Put Duke on notice, or can him too if their is a suitable replacement. I'm less passionate about that because I'm not sure if it's Duke or ownership who keep letting talent walk AND not bringing in affordable and impactful free agents. If it's Duke, he needs to go....if it's ownership, Duke needs to team up with Burrow and put pressure on ownership. Fans need to be willing to stop going to games if it is ownership, wasting this foundation is absolutely unacceptable
The most important person in the building tried it before and it didn’t work. This is an inept front office. It’ll be status quo in Cincinnati in ‘25, unfortunately.
Joe Burrow has a completely different aura and talent level than any other Bengals player in history. His words hold weight for a reason and if the Brown family pisses off Burrow he will leave and it’ll be pretty much over for the entire franchise.
@ we shall see, but this front office hasn’t done a damn thing to prove otherwise, besides being bad enough to get the #1 overall pick a couple of times to have a few good (non-super bowl-winning) seasons. Hopefully they actually listen.
You guys are ignoring that the Bengals already bucked trends in 2020 and 2021 Couple days ago on McAfee, Belichick talked about how Green bay signs some of their good players and replaces all others in the draft... they don't normally apend in FA. But they did sign Josh Jacobs (not a big money position)... bc they didn't want to pay Aaron Jones Just like Green bay, buying half the starters in FA is not doable. Btw, Packers, Steelers and Bengals all have similar contract structure per Pelissairo a few months ago
With that said, I want to see them make a couple key deals with FAs like they have on OL, Hilton, Gesicki, Trey, chido, bj hill, etc... but can't just live in FA
Mike has proven that he not only cares about his dedicated players but will listen to his top performing players. Andrew Whitworth talked about negotiating directly with Mike and Mike being more open to listening and changing his mind Mike is not as heartless as Mulaghetta or Troy Blackburn... who are both the same but just represents different sides and refuse to actually negotiate and care more about winning negotiations then actually negotiating for the best of the team (or his players in the case of mulagheta)
Well Burrow will leave when his contract is up. And he'll go back to being a laughingstock. No star players will want to sign there. Stud draft picks will want out after their rookie deals are done. Your bottom line gets negativity impacted. So yes, he gives a F
@@theseparation318 Mike's bottom line is going up (or down) no matter what.... along with the rest of the NFL Burrow and Ja'Marr haven't made a huge change in what the Bengals bring in yet... that could change but is unlikely bc media deals and shared profits go right back out the door to players, taxes, etc...
Percentages are always percentages. The percentage this year will be less actual money than the percentage next year, but the percentage is still the percentage. It doesn't matter if that percentage was taken last year or this year. It doesn't cost any more or less when dealing with percentages. That's why we use percentages. It doesn't actually matter in any circumstances if it's 3 more million this year. There's only 100% of a percentage. You can push the "you'll save more money next year if you sign him t his year" ball down the field indefinitely. No matter how you cut it. You can give Tee Higgins 10% of that salary cap or you can give that 10% to get 2 quality starter OGs and a strong safety or almost 2 OGs and a center. They Bengals have always drafted WRs well (John Ross aside) when they prioritize it. Tee is replaceable, even if it hurts Burrow's feelings or takes away his blanky. He's a big boy and can buy a quarter billion dollars worth of spongebob pillows if that's what he needs to deal with it.
If any of our wide receivers had Ryan Shazier caliber injuries or even Tyler eifert injuries you’d say they’re genius for not pulling the trigger yet. Please, tell me I’m wrong.
Finding a WR 6'4-1/2" 225 with a 81" wingspan with strong hands & makes incredibly difficult catches and is a total team player, would be almost impossible, that's not even considering the 5 years of chemistry that Tee has built up with Joe & Ja'Marr
Why's it so hard for people to figure this out??!!???
@theseparation318 it's not but they push the narratives.
Joe's greatest Bengal contribution is his influence on the Bengal Front Office.
Love Tee and fair point on the chemistry but the Jags just took BTJr with a mid first round pick.
@@josephmann8694 so, the obvious answer is to draft a great player. Let him leave when his contract is up, then TRY and find another good player at the same position? When you have a known commodity IN the building?
Joe Burrow does what local podcasters fail to -- call out the front office. That should be the title of this segment. Every one of these programs -- no matter the topic -- needs to remind viewers how disasterous ownership is and has been. It is your job to point that out consistently, not simply echo Joe's statements when it's convenient to do so.
They love to beat around the bush.
Imagine creating a podcast discussing how stingy your boss is. Yeah, that’s not going to happen.
@@dmanv69 the front office isn’t their boss.
@@WhoDey1968for James they are, I don’t know the dynamic exactly between beat reporters and the team, can they just replace a beat reporter taking shit? I don’t know. But I can imagine they could or Atleast make their job way harder to do.
@@ReformedJerry nope
THAT "You CAN'T Have/Sign BOTH 'Chase & Higgins' AND You CAN'T Have TWO #1 Wide Receivers" IS NONSENSE. The Eagles are PAYING A.J. Brown OVER $30 Million a Year & Devonte Smith OVER $25 Million a Year AND Jalen Hurts NEARLY $50 OR OVER $50 MILLION a Year. Saquon Barkley is the HIGHEST PAID Running Back in the League. AND, theyre Paying SEVERAL Players BIG Contracts to Players on Defense AND AT LEAST 3, NO LESS than 2 Offensive Linemen. The Dolphins are Paying Tyreek Hill $30 to $35 Million a Year & Jaylen Waddle $25 to $27 Million a Year AND Tua IS Being PAID Nearly or Almost, if not Over $50 Million a Year. They're Paying Jalen Ramsey as the Highest Paid Cornerback in the League. AND Several Other Players BIG Multi-Million Dollar Deals. SO AGAIN, THAT'S PURE NONSENSE that the Bengals CAN'T Pay BOTH Jamarr Chase & Tee Higgins AND Trey Hendrickson. AND With them PAYING Joe Burrow $55 Million or So a Year. PLUS, the Salary Cap is Going Up for the 2025 Season and Every Season in the Coming Seasons. The Bengals Ownership has Historically Been Cheap. However, with Joe Burrow Speaking Out, along with the Fans and Media, Enough is Enough - they're Exposed. Finally. At Last.
Don’t keep giving away your best talent. Keep the strength and identity of the team in tact, which is the passing game. Keep Tee. Add 2 new guards. Draft defense. Get a new D coordinator.
This is the answer
Mike Brown is Mike Brown....😂😂😂
These youngsters don't understand how cheap he is. It's a family-run business and it's his sole source of income. He is also the only non-billionaire to own an NFL franchise. As I said before, they must have had to get him drunk to sign the JB contract to begin with. Beyond that, why doesn't JB restructure and share the wealth with all of the teammates that he needs to succeed.
@@80swerethebestMB has had the same mentality as boomer. Same with palmer, dalton….
Have your franchise QB, 1 star WR, and let others walk. Let the defence suffer and cater to the QB. 2015 Defence was probably the best in 30 years and for some reason we are the only team in the AFC north that builds around an offence not defence.
We all need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and realize that, all we have to do, is Joe Burrow the ball and the Time to do his thing. If we give him the offensive line he deserves, the championships will come. Look what he has accomplished without the protection that most quarterbacks with his ability are afforded! He’s been running for his Life since he got here! If he didn’t have to have a running back And a tight end help protect him, there would be two more weapons right there! I don’t care about anything but building an offensive line that gives Joe more than 1.7 seconds, so he can pick apart Any and I mean Any defense in this league!!! Fix the offensive line line!!! It sucks! Has for years. Amazing he’s not a cripple!
I think the Bengals almost have to sign Tee… if not, it just adds ANOTHER need and this team can’t afford that. This team need to almost exclusively focus on the defense during the off-season. On the offensive side, a starting caliber OG is a must… maybe one of the Georgia boys in the draft??
We're right here. Get er done tonight and settle in Sunday afternoon. The only simulation or projection to actually over analyze is quite simple in the end. Were here!
It unbelievable to me that the front office would be posturing to let arguably one of the top 10 wide-outs in the league and arguably part of the most explosive receiving duals in the league, just walk after this season and the Bengals organization will get the big goose-egg for him! Who runs a football franchise like way?
Just wins baby❤🐯
Eagles have proved this method works! Why do we not do it???
He just said he hopes they can keep them all together that’s his message
Thank you. I don't see any reason why they should. They have many outstanding issues on defense and need a couple of guards and depth at tackle and prepare for a future center player along with a tier 2 pass rusher, and starters at NT, DT, #1 CB, #1 FS and they need a play for life after Hilton, Bell, and then they need depth at LB, throughout the secondary, and then after that deal with whatever free agents of their own. This offensive core has been together for 4 years now and has missed the playoffs the last two years in a row (if they make it this year it's because other teams failed). I see no value in investing 55+% of the salary into 3 players that net you a .500 record.
Burrow has power, particularly in the market. But I hope the Bengals are more than his personal frat house to get his buddies paid.
@@Montrovantisterrible take! We need both chase and Higgins. You have to build the defense through the draft. Not pay for more Geno Stones and Sheldon rankins of the world. Draft, develop and keep your own good to great players. You said pay his buddies lol we drafted those buddies and we need to keep them!
@@theweathrr Why? Why are you paying Burrow 50+ million a year if he needs a 28 million dollar WR and a 35 million dollar WR just to reach an 8-9 record? Even when this team went to the super bowl and the AFCCG they went there because the defense took them.
I'm confident you aren't qualified to evaluate a "take."
@ better than being 6-11 with just 1 weapon and a over payed underwhelming defense that you trying to pay for. Look at the chiefs for example, only person making money on that defense is Chris jones. The rest of the money is on offense. Pay for some guards and pay your weapons. Draft defense. Like I said you have terrible takes. Our QB doesn’t agree with you
@@MontrovantisWow you don’t know football
❤bengals🐯
REAL talk BENGALS NEED A PRAYER PERIOD!!!
He said you don’t want to make a living of letting great players leave the building!
Yet that’s exactly what we do over and over
Go Bengals
They probably could have gotten Tee for 16 million a year two years ago . That would be a bargain today
Have to admit I find the Bengal very funny!! Burrowhead seems so far back. I don't believe there has ever been a team do so much talking, with nothing to show for it. Now that their season is over, they can go to Arrowhead to see how it's done.
At this point the only replacement for Tee is Justin Jefferson. Im not saying that Tee is better than every other WR, but in this offense with Joe he is better than every other WR. Justin is the only WR that can click with Joe right away. On top of that Jamars relationship with Tee could only be replaced by Justin as well.
pay Jamar, he deserves it and re-sign Tee, don't make the mistakes we did with letting Reader and Bates go it definitely impacted the Defense letting go 2 great players
Here’s the thing. The issues with the offensive line and defense that caused the bengals to miss the playoffs despite historic seasons from burrow and chase are going to continue if Burrow has top of the market money, Chase has top non quarterback money and Higgins gets 30 million a year. The trade off will be the defense and offensive line will still be horrible
Bengals front office cannot afford to waste Joe Burrow’s prime years by not keeping his weapons around him now. We cannot afford another rebuild. NO!!!
We have to focus on defense and our pass rush! We make mediocre QBs look like Tom Brady. Strong offense is obviously a need, but better defense has to also be there. Hendrickson can't be the only person who is consistently making plays
We'd better get Chase and Tee back. Our management will be the biggest idiots EVER, if they let either one of them go. Sometimes it's SO HARD to he a Bengals fan...😔
Fully support Joe’s comments, hopefully it makes a difference. But i would push back against the getting the deals done early argument, these players will always want to re negotiate for a fair market value like Trey Hendrickson. So even if we signed Jamaar for $30 million a year ago, after a record breaking season he’s gonna come back to the table and ask for more. Same with Tee. That’s the life of the NFL. But our strategy is constantly draft and develop, keep maybe a star or two at a key position and let the rest walk
BUT FIRST WINS A SUPERBOWL GAME AND THEN LET'S GO'S NOT BEFORE PERIOD!
What missed tackles?
Burrow can talk until he’s blue in the face. He said he wouldn’t take every penny so they could keep the key guys together. Then did the exact opposite when he signed the contract! Outside of Mahomes it’s what every QB does. Pushes the market for every penny. Cheap ass ownership almost had to take out a bank loan to do Burrow’s contract. You really think they’re going pay Chase $35M per and Higgins 25-27M per?! Brown can’t afford to put that money in escrow and cut the signing bonus checks. He tried to offer Chase a contract with payments deferred until 2026! Then he went out and won the triple crown.. Hendrickson wanted a new deal, Brown said no. Then he went out and led the NFL in sacks.. what a clown show of a front office and ownership group!! Waiting only costs you MORE money, my 5 year old knows that. LMAO
AJ Brown ($32M per year) also signed early in 2024 as highest paid WR early instead of waiting to get paid more than JJettas and CeeDee.... so can't really compare AJ's approach to his deal with Ja'Marr's approach
Not being willing to spend upfront can always cost more on the back end. We’ve been spending draft capital and money for 10 years trying to fix the O-line because of our unwillingness to spend upfront. Yet this front office cannot seem to learn from their missteps and that why they have not had the success other franchises have had.
Turnovers determines the out come of most games... like the start of this year where offense turns the ball over a lot and we over look them but amplify the defensive issues...
False
The highest correlative to winning is score differential 😂 🤡
@@justchillin4065 not false. If you win the turnover battle, you’re more likely to win. That is a fact.
Locked on really out here trying to get ppl to gamble. And turning around and offering “better help” when they lose all of their money and family with a gambling addiction. Come on Lock on, wtf are y’all doing. Pick a side 😂.
Making this offense unstoppable is a lot easier than making this defense good. Sign Tee and Jamarr, spend 2 of your first 3 picks on legit DUDES on the interior offensive line, and this can become a historically lethal offense. Guys....we've still barely seen Joe play behind a competent offensive line. The middle of 2022 maybe, before guys started dropping like flies? High end IOL talent isn't hard to identify, at least recently. You just have to be willing to spend the draft capital. Pressure up the middle cost us the Super Bowl. And the AFCCG. And Burrow's rookie season. It's literally the only thing that can stop him. Quit effing around and get this man some nasty guards
Would Joe take a pay cut to sign a player? So it's none of his business who they should give a contract to. He doesn't own the team and have to pay millions to a player. So I don't understand where he is coming from?
Zac is in year 6. Joe is wasting away in year 5. The only thing this inept front office 🎪 has done is retain a bad head coach and let good players walk. Complacency’s bliss.
With the current lineup, every Bengals fan can taste that Super Bowl win out there on the horizon.
Not with Zac as Head Coach.
Let’s not say last press conference because we’re still in the hunt..
Bengals front office needs to get rid of their contract negotiators. Example: Who in the heck thought Sheldon Rankins was a good idea? Dude hops from team to team and hardly ever plays. Big boy called out sick with a tummy ache for the remainder of the season
I wish he’d send a message to replace the head coach.
Even if we make playoffs, hell even if we win Superbowl....we NEED to can Zac Taylor. Bring in Brian Flores!!!!! Put Duke on notice, or can him too if their is a suitable replacement. I'm less passionate about that because I'm not sure if it's Duke or ownership who keep letting talent walk AND not bringing in affordable and impactful free agents. If it's Duke, he needs to go....if it's ownership, Duke needs to team up with Burrow and put pressure on ownership.
Fans need to be willing to stop going to games if it is ownership, wasting this foundation is absolutely unacceptable
How did that work out when Palmer did the same thing? Bengals are frugal, that isn’t changing.
Burrow is better than Palmer though
The team can't grow and improve if they keep letting really good, quality players go!! Players who really like Cincy and want to stay!!!
James looks angry
They have to stop backtracking and regressing!!!!!
Spittsburgh doesn't have much of a passing game! Pickens is it. We shut him down, then that's it, no passing game!
But you’re 8-8 for a reason: you have a bad defense. It’s not complicated.
Joe ain't long for Cinncinnati
The most important person in the building tried it before and it didn’t work. This is an inept front office. It’ll be status quo in Cincinnati in ‘25, unfortunately.
Joe Burrow has a completely different aura and talent level than any other Bengals player in history. His words hold weight for a reason and if the Brown family pisses off Burrow he will leave and it’ll be pretty much over for the entire franchise.
@ we shall see, but this front office hasn’t done a damn thing to prove otherwise, besides being bad enough to get the #1 overall pick a couple of times to have a few good (non-super bowl-winning) seasons. Hopefully they actually listen.
30 plus years of evidence and James still thinks Bengals will buck trends with contract. We no longer get objective analysis we get fan speak.
He's gotta stay in the team's good graces to keep that media pass.
The Brown families pettiness is a historical trend with our ownership.
You guys are ignoring that the Bengals already bucked trends in 2020 and 2021
Couple days ago on McAfee, Belichick talked about how Green bay signs some of their good players and replaces all others in the draft... they don't normally apend in FA. But they did sign Josh Jacobs (not a big money position)... bc they didn't want to pay Aaron Jones
Just like Green bay, buying half the starters in FA is not doable.
Btw, Packers, Steelers and Bengals all have similar contract structure per Pelissairo a few months ago
With that said, I want to see them make a couple key deals with FAs like they have on OL, Hilton, Gesicki, Trey, chido, bj hill, etc... but can't just live in FA
Mike Brown does not give a shit about what Burrow thinks. He will do whatever the f#%^ he wants.
Mike has proven that he not only cares about his dedicated players but will listen to his top performing players. Andrew Whitworth talked about negotiating directly with Mike and Mike being more open to listening and changing his mind
Mike is not as heartless as Mulaghetta or Troy Blackburn... who are both the same but just represents different sides and refuse to actually negotiate and care more about winning negotiations then actually negotiating for the best of the team (or his players in the case of mulagheta)
Well Burrow will leave when his contract is up. And he'll go back to being a laughingstock. No star players will want to sign there. Stud draft picks will want out after their rookie deals are done. Your bottom line gets negativity impacted. So yes, he gives a F
@@theseparation318
Mike's bottom line is going up (or down) no matter what.... along with the rest of the NFL Burrow and Ja'Marr haven't made a huge change in what the Bengals bring in yet... that could change but is unlikely bc media deals and shared profits go right back out the door to players, taxes, etc...
Spittsburgh's offense is weak!!!
That weak offense cooked our garbage defense
Percentages are always percentages. The percentage this year will be less actual money than the percentage next year, but the percentage is still the percentage. It doesn't matter if that percentage was taken last year or this year. It doesn't cost any more or less when dealing with percentages. That's why we use percentages. It doesn't actually matter in any circumstances if it's 3 more million this year. There's only 100% of a percentage. You can push the "you'll save more money next year if you sign him t his year" ball down the field indefinitely.
No matter how you cut it. You can give Tee Higgins 10% of that salary cap or you can give that 10% to get 2 quality starter OGs and a strong safety or almost 2 OGs and a center. They Bengals have always drafted WRs well (John Ross aside) when they prioritize it. Tee is replaceable, even if it hurts Burrow's feelings or takes away his blanky. He's a big boy and can buy a quarter billion dollars worth of spongebob pillows if that's what he needs to deal with it.
If any of our wide receivers had Ryan Shazier caliber injuries or even Tyler eifert injuries you’d say they’re genius for not pulling the trigger yet. Please, tell me I’m wrong.
You're wrong
@ How so? You’re over here posting the season is already over. I’d love to hear your input.
@@KingSavageMatty you can't live your life living in fear of potential injuries. Banking on Chase tearing his ACL is just idiocy
@@Qwop3465 living in fear and planning for the future is 2 completely different things.
@@KingSavageMatty you're living in fear