Florio: 'Bengals care about money, not championships'

[BengalsRocker]

The whole "I'd like to be a fly on the wall" during contract negotiations comes to mind here.

As a fan back when Palmer quit I thought he was acting like an ass.

I mean he DID resign a contract with a nice salary with a team & FO he was familiar with, so he must just be a diva... right?

Then on the other hand... what was promised/said to him during meetings and finalization?

We'll probably never know but there are other things that incline a player to re-up with a team than just money.

Trust might have been broken and a feeling of disrespect ensued.

In hindsight on players like CP, I'm just going to reserve my judgement because we only have a glimpse of the whole picture.

The rest is just speculation whether you side with the player or ownership.


The team had a run of finding some players in the draft years ago and have done fairly well as of late.

They tried to fill issues on the O-line via draft and missed badly. You can even say that on the D-line/Lbers as well.

A GM would have probably been fired by now for some of these missteps but alas we have Tobin who is coated with Teflon and nothing sticks.