Bengals brass scoffs at Tee Higgins rumors: 5 takeaways from combine comments

INDIANAPOLIS — Bengals head coach Zac Taylor and director of player personnel Duke Tobin chose different words Tuesday during their media availabilities at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, but they were synonymously succinct in addressing the rumors swirling around a possible trade of wide receiver Tee Higgins. “Because at the end of the day, I do get to call the plays, and it’s fun having weapons out there, and you don’t really want to give those up.” Here are four of the other biggest takeaways from Taylor and Tobin’s media sessions: Mixon’s future Ninety percent of our subscribers who filled out the Choose Your Own Adventure worksheet last week elected to cut running back Joe Mixon and create an additional $7.1 million in cap space. “I’m not going to predict the offseason because I don’t have the answers,” Tobin said before quoting a character from “The Office.” “In the words of the great Kevin Malone, ‘I don’t know. “We want them back,” Tobin said in a response to a question that also addressed safety Vonn Bell’s future. We don’t want guys to jump into something and then say, ‘what if?’ And so with Germaine, he’s earned the opportunity to go out and see what his market value is.” Bengals out on all-in mindset Shooting down the notion of trading Higgins for a pair of high picks is a sign of a team focused on going after a Super Bowl title this year, but it’s not a pivot from their overall philosophy of viewing every season — this one, next one, the one after that, etc.