10-29-2019, 02:26 PM
(10-29-2019, 02:14 PM)Fullrock Wrote: 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.
“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.
they wanted to keep whit... And made him an offer.... Which was to reduce his role to transistion to Ob or Fisher... But he felt he had a few more years in him and was right...
Its not that the bengals didn't value him... Its they didn't want to invest multiple years into a guy close to the max end in age in the NFL. for his position
if we had given whit a 3 year deal and his play steeply declined or he miss lots of time injured.. You all whould be bashing the front office for not letting him go soon enough.....
