I just feel like everyone is going to spend all week talking about Mahomes' ankle or Burrow being a Demigod or Chase against this young secondary or Lou Anarumo being a psychopath...and then in the end it's just going to Samaje Perine bludgeoning Bolton and Gay to death.
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
They can't pay all their stars and field an actual team. We aren't talking about one WR and a couple of other positions.
Tee and Chase together could take up over a third of their cap.
This really isn't about any other guy in that team. It's about Higgins. If they pay him AND Chase, they're building the opposite of what the actual contenders in the AFC have done. Good luck with that.
You can slice and dice it a half a dozen different ways. No surprise Burrow wants them to keep the passing game together. It's the thing that works best for them as a team and of course yes benefits him personally. I don't agree with keeping Higgins due to his injury-prone ways. But Burrow expressing that he's flexible with his own contract and the cap is not the primary roadblock puts some level of pressure on the organization to at least not be cash cheapskates, as they are known to do. [Reply]
Originally Posted by wazu:
You can slice and dice it a half a dozen different ways. No surprise Burrow wants them to keep the passing game together. It's the thing that works best for them as a team and of course yes benefits him personally. I don't agree with keeping Higgins due to his injury-prone ways. But Burrow expressing that he's flexible with his own contract and the cap is not the primary roadblock puts some level of pressure on the organization to at least not be cash cheapskates, as they are known to do.
League executives are well aware of the public pressure Joe Burrow has been applying to the #Bengals since the season ended — and it has continued this week at Radio Row in New Orleans. Burrow has made it clear, both privately and publicly, that the team must do whatever it takes… pic.twitter.com/QhwYoluF9o
My theory that I don't think is that crazy at all....
Joe is doing all this, knowing full well they are NOT going to pay all these guys, setting the stage for him to be act pissed off and eventually pull a Carson Palmer/Matthew Stafford.
That man wants to go the NFC and it is going to happen eventually. [Reply]
Joe Burrow is ok in my book. I usually like Adam Schein's show on Mad Dog Sirius XM radio when he talks about the NFL, but lately he's been annoying me with his complaining about the Chiefs getting favorable calls from the refs. This morning while driving into work I heard a little bit of Adam Schein's interview with Joe Burrow. Here's the transcript from the show's website. Burrow handled the question with class, showing that he's not one of those losers who blames the refs for getting beat.
Originally Posted by Adam Schein:
08:10
Which is crazy and accurate. And listen, you mentioned luck and you mentioned calls and you know, obviously you could always, a team could play better in a game. I'm still not over week two, I'm still not over the game against Kansas City. You guys had 'em beats your reaction. The CBS cameras were on you when they threw that flag at the end. I mean, we've talked about, you know, Kansas City getting calls in the postseason, the regular season. I mean, what was your take in moments on that flag? They threw the game was over, Joe, you guys won the game game and when you're facing Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, do you feel as if, you know what, sometimes you gotta beat Kansas City and the officials?
Originally Posted by Joe Burrow:
08:54
I know, if I would necessarily say that as far as that specific call, do I think would I, I would've been upset if we didn't get that call on offense. If, if their defender contacted our guy a little early. I think it was probably 50 50. Uh, but you know, that call could have gone either way. So I wasn't too upset about that one. Obviously in in the moment it was, it was frustrating to lose a game like that and lose a second game like that in Kansas City like we did in, in the a FC championship game a couple years ago. Uh, but I don't think you can really argue that call. I think it could have gone either way. And, and I would've been upset if we didn't get that call.
Just watched the highlights from the Week 2 game. Crazy game. Burrow and that Bengals team have been a great rival - and you can tell that unlike the friendship Mahomes has with Allen, Patrick and Burrow seem to really get under each other’s skin. That win ended up being significant. Burrow’s Bengals would have had a real shot to take out Allen and the Bills in a 2-7 matchup. The Bengals also likely keep Lou if they made it to the postseason.
I would think the Bengals have to keep two of Chase, Hendrickson and Higgins to keep the band together. If they only keep Chase, they’re at risk of giving up an all time fumble of what should have been a Super Bowl winning team (the Rams had a MASH unit on O and only Stafford & Kupp - and then a year later the Chiefs had a MASH unit on O with an injured Patrick and Kelce - they had a title right there and couldn’t get it done).
Would the 90’s Pacers be a comp for them if they don’t get a ring out of this team? [Reply]
