The Bengals quarter, Joe Burrow, made his feelings known. And the Bengals wisely flashed.
A team with a long reputation for being Extremely careful with money Proritized the pursuit of a silver trophy on the hoarding of its gold, thanks to the public pressure that Burrow placed in the team.
His remarks, during Non-Pro Bowl Bowl And through a series of visits to the Super Bowl-Semaine with tastes Siriusxm NFL radio,, Breakfast Podcast and Forgive my catchmade its position clear. If the Eagles can pay more players than their quarter-arre, the Bengals can also do it.
The rest of the unmistakable Burrow message: “or else”.
The “either” didn’t need to be said. Bengals lived it 14 years ago. It’s at this time more concerned with earning money than making games.
Bengals were not enough to give Burrow a market agreement. Burrow, like most large quarters, wants to build his heritage thanks to the accumulation of equipment. And with several high -end artists other than him in the team, he wanted them to stay.
He mentioned, at one point, believing that the team could, and should keep the receiver Ja’mar Chase, the receiver Tee Higgins, the defensive winger Trey Hendrickson and the winger tight Mike Gesicki. Three have now signed multi -year offers. Hendrickson is the last standing man.
Even if the Bengals allowed Hendrickson to seek a trade, Their objective (We are told) must let Hendrickson see that other teams will not pay a rusher of 30 years of 30 years much more than $ 30 million a year. Thought is that it could possibly return and accept the current offer from Cincinnati, perhaps with a slight sweetener.
Anyway, the Bengals faced a gigantic fork on the road. And despite their history of choosing the path of the least cost, they opted this time for the less frequented road. Which had been less traveled by the Bengals because the tolls are much higher.
Few people who have paid particular attention to the league during the last 20 years expected. It is dramatically out of character. And it happened because Burrow clearly said he wanted it.
What he didn’t need to say is that, if they did not do it, it was only a matter of time before he, like Palmer, chose the road completely outside Cincinnati.
