Jonah squatted 600 lbs!

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(06-15-2023, 02:47 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Yeah, talking through it has allowed me to refine my point more. I wasn't necessarily meaning to advocate for telling him prior to the signing, even though I think this has probably occurred, but just more so that someone should have told him before Apple News. 

Sure, I can understand keeping the chain of communication intact. If Duke wanted to relay it to Zac, and then Zac to Frank, so on and so forth then that is completely fine. Honestly, it is probably preferable. Frank is going to have much more of a relationship built with Jonah than Katie. I would suspect he would be able to communicate it better, and then communicate plans going forward. 

Maybe the blame is on the coaches for not reaching out to him. This staff has really blossomed and that would be out of character for them as well. 

I think the sentiment is valid in a lot of cases, but i don't think it's as much in the NFL. Without a doubt, at some point early(ish), someone should have called Jonah and said "this is what we're looking to do". Whether he liked it or not is irrelevant--the Bengals don't owe Jonah anything but the money guaranteed in his contract. 

The problem i see is, with the digital, instant news we have now, it seems it would be hard to tell him before he found out online. That aside, i'm sure he would have felt better about it if someone had called him and told him what the plan going forward was and at that point, he could react however he wanted to react. 

With all that said, looking at it from the Bengals POV, Jonah is a grown man in a business that has a short shelf life. They probably figured, no matter when we talk to him, the reaction probably isn't going to change and they assumed he'd be professional about it. I think Jonah has the track record that allows you to assume that he would be.