Tua's agent: "I hoping Cincy falls in love with Joe Burrow."

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(02-01-2020, 05:00 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: I guess I see the flip side of things in this. 

If you have a player you represent, their first contract is set by the CBA. What you are counting on is them having success and making a huge payday on their second contract.

Since the 90s the narrative has remained the same here, if you are wanting your guy to get to the playoffs and build a brand then you want him on a team that will try to win and that just isn't here.

Let's be honest, if any poster on this board was Joe Burrow or Tua or Herbert's Dad, would you actually be excited for them to go to Cincy with Mike Brown and his dark age methods of running a franchise? 

Well, yeah.

Mike Brown has been heinously loyal to his quarterbacks. Both the last two have had stays that, at times, weren't a reflection of what they provided to the team but instead a sign of browns loyalty to players loyal to him.

And for any player going in the top 10, you're most likely going to a bad team. Sure, there's some fluke years where a consistently good org like the pats or Steelers or Ravens pick top 10, but more often than not you end up going to someplace like Miami or the Browns where the world can flip from August to October. 

If you're burrow or herbert or tuas dad, you're thankful a semi stable organization like the Bengals are there instead of someone like the browns. At least here, the guy will get a couple seasons to show he can lead a team, which is 100 times better than rookie ping pong where a team can't decide if it wants to play this year's first rounder, some guy they traded for or the first rounder from two years ago.

Burrow (or whoever) will likely get two seasons to prove himself. If he does and doesnt like the org, he has the freedom to move on in a few years. That beats getting drafted by the browns and benched into obscurity after four games.