When it comes to contract negotiations in the NFL , some teams play chess, some teams play checkers and then there's the Cincinnati Bengals , who play Boggle. They do things their own way. If there's one thing that the Bengals have never tried to hide, it's the fact that they march to the beat of their own drum and they don't care what anyone thinks.

Sometimes, this works for them, but other times, it doesn't. With the Ja'Marr Chase deal, the Bengals ended up overpaying because they couldn't get a deal done with their star receiver in September 2024, even though the two sides were close. Chase went out and had a triple crown season, and the fact that a deal didn't get done until March 2025 ended up costing the Bengals millions.

The Bengals probably could have gotten a four-year,

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