Their Bengals Careers are Over

[samhain]

(05-05-2023, 06:50 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: Great point about Hilton and his mouth. People here don’t even realize they’ve been influenced by media to dislike Apple. Apple busted for the NY Giants and became a big joke. He wouldn’t have nearly as bad of a reputation if he stunk on Jacksonville

Hilton doesn’t have a past reputation of bad play, nor did he ever have the NY media at his throat, so he gets a pass.

Very hypocritical for people here to bash Apple and give Hilton a pass. Eli has been solid for his 2 seasons here. People here have been influenced by the other fans/media. I live in NY, people here will bring him up as one of the biggest busts in team history. They just naturally dislike him, social media trash talk be damned

Too many fans here care about what the fans on Twitter think about the bengals. To a fault

Yeah, it's annoying.  Eli would be nothing more than a solid journeyman cb if it wasn't for the social media narratives.  He may not be particularly remarkable, but he's a solid player at a premium position.  Hell, I'd argue that minus the reputation, Eli would probably be a fairly expensive player in free agency.  

It's not quite fair to judge by social media presence, either.  yes, it's self caused, but people generally are not the people they pretend to be on social media.  I met Eli at a Bengals autograph event that I took my 10 year old son to, and he was one of the if not the nicest guy out of the dozen or so we met.  He was very talkative with the boy and seemed like a very normal, humble guy.  None of them are really jerks (that we've met), but some are more engaging and mentally present than others, and Eli was def one of them.