Bengals aim to keep band together; Micah Parsons confident a deal will be done
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
0:45 – Franchise tag window opens today
6:50 – Bengals aim for long-term deals with Chase, Higgins, Hendrickson
14:50 – Micah Parsons confident a deal will be done
17:35 – Is Trevor Lawrence still on the trade block?
26:15 – Netflix wants Sunday afternoon NFL package
32:50 – Richie Incognito’s problem should be with Ted Wells, not the media who reported on the scandal
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| 0:00.0 | PFT PM Tuesday, February 18, 2025. |
| 0:15.9 | PFT Live off this week, PFT PM on this week. |
| 0:20.0 | You know the drill by now whenever PFT Live is dark. |
| 0:22.7 | Hashtag no days off. |
| 0:23.9 | Hashtag except when we take days off. |
| 0:27.3 | But there's still plenty happening in the NFL, even though this is one of the |
| 0:31.6 | the low tide weeks of the offseason schedule. |
| 0:35.4 | Because high tide returns next week with scouting combine |
| 0:38.6 | week after that the run-up the free agency and then boom all hell breaks loose we're going to |
| 0:43.5 | start with one of the items that is a precursor to the looming free agency frenzy the opening |
| 0:50.0 | of the two-week franchise tag window that's today today. And as we all know by now, and if you don't, |
| 0:59.3 | what are you doing here? You know by now. If you're an aficionado of the NFL to the extent that |
| 1:05.5 | you pay attention to this podcast, you know that every year, every team has one franchise tag available to apply to someone |
| 1:14.3 | who otherwise would be an unrestricted free agent. |
| 1:17.4 | After completing four years of NFL service, contract expires, heads to the open market, |
| 1:25.7 | blocked from the open market by the team that has the ability to say |
| 1:29.8 | no, even though you might have earned a generational payday from some other team that values you |
| 1:37.5 | more than we do, or more importantly, can only get you by giving you that significant contract. |
| 1:43.5 | We can squat on your rights for one more |
| 1:45.5 | year. And there was a time where they kind of sold this idea that it was some sort of an honor. |
| 1:50.8 | It's not an honor. It's not a privilege. It is a restriction. It is golden handcuffs that keep you |
| 1:56.6 | from getting a much bigger pile of gold elsewhere, with no handcuffs. |
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