Meachemdat
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Well I understand your viewpoint, but I've yet to see any evidence that the Bengals haven't tried to open negotiations, so you may not be being entirely fair.
Meanwhile we are all to happy to assume the Saints are negotiating with Taysom in good confidence, but actually we don't have much evidence of that either.
Basically both teams are controlling their assets wisely, it's just that everyone's happy to slate the Bengals, because somehow they 'owe us' a crack at signing AJ Green? ?
I definitely preface both statements with:
"It's my understanding that" and "I hope that" haha.
Based on how we've treated our free agents previously, I feel like we do the right thing. Ingram being the exception. I feel we offered him what was fair value, his agent said they would test the market and we went out and got his replacement (jumped the gun a little).
Everything else has been above board, what we are allowed to see of the process anyways.
Everything I've heard/seen of the Bengals organization reminds me of the Skins. They can't get out of their own way and make really head scratching decisions.
But yes, most people secretly want to convert Taysom into a 1st rounder and would love for Green to test free agency and set up shop in the Big Easy.