Carson Palmer

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(02-10-2022, 12:52 PM)Bengalstripes9 Wrote: If he’s being honest I have no problem with it. I just watched this part of the interview and he was very complementary of the city and fans. He just said the organization was cheap, their food sucked and mentioned the mop bucket deal. He did say he heard their food has gotten better. If their food sucked I have no problem with people being honest about anything. More people should be honest. Theirs too many fake people out there. Sadly society shuns people that are real and honest a lot of the time.

What it comes down to is, NFL teams make millions of dollars and the league makes Billions of dollars. NFL teams use amenities as a way to give players a little "extra" simply because they can and probably more importantly, to gain an advantage when it comes to drawing in players (FA) to make their team better and to keep the best players wanting to play for them.

They try and out-do their competition by having the best facilities and the best food to bring in players that will help (or try) to win Super Bowls. Everyone knows the Bengals didn't used to operate that way. Their mantra was always 'this is good enough', without paying the extra money. Mike Brown comes by this honestly because Paul Brown was well known as a hard-line 'do-it-my-way', cheap kind of guy and he was genius enough with the football to get away with it. Every single player from that era will tell you the same with daunting tales of contract negotiations.

Thing is, times change but for a long time, Mike Brown didn't. He still tried to run the franchise the same way Paul did years ago and as time went on and other teams upped the ante, his model stuck out like a sore thumb. 

Every thing Carson talked about highlighted this and people don't like it now, mainly, because he decided to take his ball and go home when he had enough of it and fans are upset that he "quit" instead of sticking it out, like they have to. 

I'm sure people around Mike Brown are the reason that the organization has begun to change that image, but that doesn't erase how it used to be done for a long long time. 

I don't fault Carson for what he did in principle because almost 100% of people would do what he did in a similar circumstance, if the opportunity is there. As far as Carson himself, i would never defend the type of person he is because in his rookie year, i was at a Speedway in Covington one Saturday morning in 2003 and when i turned around, he was standing right there getting some coffee. I lowkey said i was looking forward to seeing him on the field and good luck the next day (though i knew he, personally, wouldn't be playing). He never even acknowledged that words came out of my mouth let alone looked my way, even though i was standing right next to him and no one else was near us. I knew right then he was "that dude". I just shrugged and walked away. 

His talking about how cheap they were and how they were run is very much a continued dig and his relative lack of knowledge in how they do things (or his complete ignoring of it) now is an indication that he's being petty, on the biggest stage, because he never had what curent players have now. He's never talked bad about the city itself or the fans though.