The Bengals holding Stewart hostage...

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https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...shemar-stewart-contract-holdout-trade-college

Haven't seen this posted, but has anyone followed the situation with Shamar Stewart - the 17th overall selection from the Bengals?

Some weeks ago Stewart was blasted in the media for not participating in rookie mini-camp and already holding out. All guns blazing on character issues etc. Same thing at the beginning of OTAs.

Turns out that was not exactly the case.

The Bengals are trying to push the legal interpretation of garanteed money in his contract and set a new precedent for all future contracts in the league of how much money is garanteed depending of circumstances.

I mean. WTAF!!!! You have a rookie 1st rounder playing the same position as your star hold-out and then you try to bully him into signing a contract that could change all future contracts. They are basicly giving him a choice of his dream by signing a $$$ NFL contract OR going against the player union and all other players in the league.

Whether the Bengals have a fair case or not, I do not know. But that discussion should be between the owners and player union and not forced onto a kid trying to sign his first contract.
 
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Bengals are always a nice reminder that we struggle here with the Bidwills, it can absolutely be worse. I think we're barely north of the bottom 1/3 of NFL owners in terms of how well they manage the franchise.

Michael seems to be improving with the hires of Monti and JG..... or he is getting lucky lol
 

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The Bengals playing games with top talent while they are in their window is very Bengal like
Yeah, seems kind of strange considering what they gave up for Watson. Maybe they are trying to learn something from the experience of his contract.
 

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