Small market free agency

[bengals1969]

(11-11-2019, 02:31 PM)t3r3e3 Wrote: Ding ding ding, we have a winner!!!  The troubles of the organization lie at the feet of ownership.  Their miserly ways put them at a severe disadvantage with the rest of the league.  Mike Brown is a billionaire.  He got there on the backs of Hamilton County taxpayers and the fans.  His refusal to provide similar facilities and amenities as his peers make an uncompetitive team a virtual pariah to free agents.  There’s a reason the team resorts to signing troubled former first rounders and the Kerry Joseph’s of the league.  Ownership is pathetically cheap, and skates by on the bare minimum while lining their pockets and paying family members to suck at their jobs.

Pro sports is a dream business since the costs and barriers to enter are prohibiting to 99% of those financially able to buy a team. Once you’re in as a NFL owner you have a easy path to future riches. All those brain cells you used to become wealthy, all the risks you took competing against other bright, energetic, ruthless people aren’t needed in the NFL. Oh sure you could do that if you really wanted to win playoffs and compete for a SB. 

So the NFL has the Brown family who essentially are hereditary owners from an NFL icon. They don’t deserve it, shouldn’t be in it, others could do far better with the team but there is no economic pain to force the Browns out. 

Where would Mike Brown move the team?  Another no brainer decision for him in 7 years time, find a city to shower more riches on his family.