Whitworth-Bengals lowballed

[*bengalfan74*]

(12-05-2018, 08:02 PM)Whatever Wrote: All the organizations that are consistently good are trying to get out from under expensive vets before they start sliding downhill.  That's just the nature of the business.  If they can't, they either ask them to take a pay cut or release them.  I mean the Steelers cut James Harrison and strongarmed Troy Polamalu into retirement.  When you win, the fans don't bat an eye.

Very few non-QB's play out a 10+ year career with one team.  The few that do are great players and are willing to take less money over the course of their career to stay in one place.  Whit was the former, but not the latter.  That doesn't make him a bad guy anymore than it makes the Bengals bad guys for not wanting to write blank checks to a 34 year old T  when they already thought they had his replacement.  

So what you're saying is Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis are doing a fine job and they should continue operating as they have been ? It's only dumb luck that they haven't produced a single playoff win in 28 and 16 years respectively. As long as they keep doing what they're doing sooner or later all the stars will lineup, the football gods will smile on us, hell will freeze over and we're bound to stumble into a competitive team somehow, somewhere.

Got it  :andy: