#ike genuninely how could ja’marr ever go and have someone else as his qb??? when all he does is talk up how amazing joe is??

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The fact that next year both Tee and TB will/could be Free Agents scares me. The amount of team who will try to get Tee and pay him a lot of $ (probably more than what the Bengals will offer him) is scary! The way Ja’Marr has been talking about being in Joes and Zac Taylor ears about keeping Tee confirms what everyone is thinking… As long Joe will be the QB, Ja’Marr ain’t going anywhere and he knows it. (TB contract has not been mentioned or questioned at all)

He definitely loves Tee, but would Ja’Marr be pushing this much to make him stay and publicly say it, if he knew he could be leaving in 2 years ?! I doubt it. I do believe Joe and Ja’Marr might had a discussion about their future and the reality of the organization. If they want to win, they have to stay together. If Joe takes a pay cut, Ja’Marr better agree. Let’s be honest, if Joe takes less, it’s because he wants the team to pay Ja’Marr and Tee to make them stay.

man i really have no idea what is going to happen with all the contracts. in an ideal world of course all three of them would stay on the bengals together forever, but if you think about it realistically, i just don’t know that they’ll be able to pay all of them what they’re worth. and i don’t know that it’s fair or realistic to expect any of them to accept less. (i mean if they want to?? more power to them!) and i really don't know that mike brown would be cool with us spending so much on two people with the same position….

i think we definitely keep joe obviously, but who we keep long term out of ja’marr and tee is tricky. i do agree that at the moment ja’marr at least seems to be planning to stay long term; if he’s advocating so hard for tee to stay, then clearly he thinks he’ll be staying as well, plus various things he and joe have said in interviews (along with what his dad said in that joint interview with joe’s dad recently). but planning on it now doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s going to stick with that when it comes to the actual negotiations next year, so i don’t want to get my hopes up too much (obviously my heart tells me that he and joe want to stay together forever but my heart also is not a football expert!) 

i hope we find a way to keep tee for at least a little bit longer 🥺, i’ve heard we can at the very least tag him next year, which would be nice for us. i’ve also heard that maybe they can manipulate the timing of when the extensions kick in so that tee and ja’marr and joe wouldn’t all set in at once and fuck up the cap too badly, but that would still be pretty tricky. 

TB is interesting, because you’re right, there really hasn’t been much talk about keeping him, even though it would be great to keep him too. it seems like charlie jones may have been drafted to be his replacement, so i wonder if the team is even planning on trying at all. there was one interview recently during OTAs i think with tyler boyd, i’d have to find it again, where he did seem to imply he didn’t care about money and that he wanted to be around for the long term. and he’s already been paid at this point, so i wonder if out of left field he takes a paycut to stay, just like mixon did. (his daughter is in cincy right? and he’s definitely very involved in her life, so i can’t imagine he’d take the decision of leaving lightly). 

so basically yeah i have no idea what’s gonna happen!! i want so badly for them all to stay together, but i’m doing my best to not get my hopes up and expect it. (but oh my god if/when joe and ja’marr get separated i’m going to lose my mind 🙃)