Comments on: Ocho Cinco, Houshmandzadeh Rumors Stir in Wake of Senior Bowl http://stripehype.com/2009/01/26/ocho-cinco-houshmandzadeh-rumors-stir-in-wake-of-senior-bowl/ A Cincinnati Bengals Blog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:33:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: What’s Happening? » Blog Archive » Heath Ledger Tampa Bay Buccaneers,Cincinnati Bengals Quarterbacks http://stripehype.com/2009/01/26/ocho-cinco-houshmandzadeh-rumors-stir-in-wake-of-senior-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-923 What’s Happening? » Blog Archive » Heath Ledger Tampa Bay Buccaneers,Cincinnati Bengals Quarterbacks Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:13:39 +0000 http://stripehype.com/?p=762#comment-923 [...] Ocho Cinco, Houshmandzadeh Rumors Stir in Wake of Senior Bowl … [...] [...] Ocho Cinco, Houshmandzadeh Rumors Stir in Wake of Senior Bowl … [...]

]]> By: G-Money http://stripehype.com/2009/01/26/ocho-cinco-houshmandzadeh-rumors-stir-in-wake-of-senior-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-922 G-Money Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:39:05 +0000 http://stripehype.com/?p=762#comment-922 David Very good points. I didn't think about the new contract and the fact of the proration period. Although I think Chad wants out of Cinci and may be willing to take a little less to play elsewhere... if he had some say in where he went (almost using it like a "No Trade Clause" in MLB). David

Very good points. I didn’t think about the new contract and the fact of the proration period. Although I think Chad wants out of Cinci and may be willing to take a little less to play elsewhere… if he had some say in where he went (almost using it like a “No Trade Clause” in MLB).

]]> By: David http://stripehype.com/2009/01/26/ocho-cinco-houshmandzadeh-rumors-stir-in-wake-of-senior-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-921 David Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:57:19 +0000 http://stripehype.com/?p=762#comment-921 If the Bengals can get a second for Chad, I say they should take it and move on. I think several factors will conspire to lower Chad's trade value this year: the draft is much stronger this year at WR than it was in 2008; there's a good crop of potential free agent wideouts; there are other good WRs like Boldin also rumored to be on the block; Chad is the wrong side of 30 and has had injury issues the last two seasons, and; with a trade he will want a new, big-bucks deal and the five-year proration limit on bonus money this year makes it hard to give him the kind of "Fitzgerald money" he'll want. I hope I'm wrong, but in the end I don't see Chad playing anywhere else come next fall. If the Bengals can get a second for Chad, I say they should take it and move on. I think several factors will conspire to lower Chad’s trade value this year: the draft is much stronger this year at WR than it was in 2008; there’s a good crop of potential free agent wideouts; there are other good WRs like Boldin also rumored to be on the block; Chad is the wrong side of 30 and has had injury issues the last two seasons, and; with a trade he will want a new, big-bucks deal and the five-year proration limit on bonus money this year makes it hard to give him the kind of “Fitzgerald money” he’ll want. I hope I’m wrong, but in the end I don’t see Chad playing anywhere else come next fall.

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