Whitworth-Bengals lowballed

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(12-06-2018, 08:30 PM)3wt Wrote: I think that loyalty has always been a Brown family value.  We all have our blind spots and it's one of theirs in the sense that they give it to a fault and require it to a fault.

Remember the gag rule they imposed that lost one of our punters (last name Johnson I believe) his job?

And I can't help but feel that one of the reasons that they hired Tiger Johnson over Bill Walsh was 1) They were loyal to Tiger and 2) I don't think they felt Walsh was all that loyal to them, or should have been loyal enough to stay under Johnson.

So it may have played into their approach.  But I think Whit was sending them the message that he believed he was worth a multiyear contract and the Bengals just disagreed.

And they were wrong.

Sometimes you have to take risks. Taking a risk to keep an aging left tackle whos still playing high level football, not to mention he's a role model within the locker room, seems like a no brainer. It was pretty clear at the time that Fisher and Ogbhuei werent not coming along fast enough. But Mike with his profit driven robot logic decided that Whitworth wasnt worth the risk, and he was wrong, but he'll never admit to that.