10-29-2019, 02:14 PM
(10-29-2019, 01:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: You mean you could go on and on making stuff up.Quotes from an article Melissa Whitworth wrote. Yeah, I'd say he felt burned. You don't have to come out and trash an organization to feel burned or betrayed by them.
Whitworth still loves the Bengals and harbors no ill will against them.
Read this. (don't know why I can't cut and paste quotes)
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2019/01/31/despite-team-divorce-bengals-still-andrew-whitworth-super-bowl/2735871002/
“We don’t have Andrew valued at that price,” Blackburn said. “He is an aging left tackle. Our offer stands. It will not increase. If he chooses to leave Cincinnati, all good things must come to an end, I guess.” Wow. That was it. Cincinnati didn’t “value Andrew” the way other teams seemed to. It was hurtful and felt personal. We sat in silence for a few minutes not believing what we had just read.
Had anyone ever told them in their job, after more than a decade of blind loyalty, leadership, and sacrifice they weren’t “valuable enough to keep?”
“Baby, daddy didn’t choose to leave Cincinnati. They decided to let him leave. He wasn’t as important to them as we thought he would be.
