10-19-2021, 03:33 PM
(10-17-2021, 09:17 PM)samhain Wrote: I appreciate what he did here up until the last couple of seasons.
It's sketchy as hell that he's suddenly an effective player again when he looked absolutely finished and uninterested last season. He literally looked like he wasn't even trying to contest high-point throws anymore. He was making a metric shit ton of cash on that one year deal, and he was practically useless to his rookie quarterback.
AJ having the year he's currently having makes me at least partially believe that he was just going through the motions. That pisses me off as a fan of this team.
In fairness to him for years he did and said all the right things. He said he wanted to be a bengals and put it all out there ever game only to have the rug pulled out from under him every post season for various reasons beyond his control.
Then the post seasons stopped coming and the team around him disintegrated and there was no promise it would get better again. That has to take its toll on you and sap your motivation.
He was a bengal great but the time had come for both parties to go their separate ways.
I get why it would frustrate you and your entitled to that as a fan but I get his side of it too.
