Bengals pay Chase and Higgins

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Yep, we talked about this months ago. The Chiefs, Bills, and Ravens seem to be moving one direction with WRs. The Bengals are basically doing the opposite. It will either prove to be genius or stupid. There's not much room for it to just be meh.

They need to start drafting really well and based upon what their history says they can’t. There drafts recently have not been good

[pugsnotdrugs19]

Originally Posted by RunKC

They need to start drafting really well and based upon what their history says they can’t. There drafts recently have not been good

This is the issue I see as much or more than simply cutting Higgins the check.

Last year proved they haven’t drafted well enough to be a high level playoff team, even with Chase and Higgins.

These contracts double down that they can make up for those draft day wrongs and do it FAST.

They don’t just need a good draft if they want to contend for SB LX — they’re going to need a great one.

And that was true with or without Higgins, but now with this deal done, the target to achieve that goal got a lot smaller.

Whether it was flipping him for a pick or two or simply having $28.5m to put toward 2-3 other starters, you’re just up shits creek if you’re Duke Tobin trying to have the great draft needed to vault back atop the AFC. I don’t see it.

Burrow will get his stats, but this isn’t a team I fear deep in the AFC playoffs next year.