Florio: 'Bengals care about money, not championships'

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(02-26-2021, 07:53 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I think this line of thinking works better when discussing a league without a salary cap.  The Bengals aren't exactly in the same position as the Pittsburgh Pirates, for example.  With that being said, Mike Brown should theoretically have a nice sum of money put away to hire a lot of people since he's gone without hiring a GM for 30+ years, for example.

That's the issue with the Bengals.  Don't need to hire a GM because I'm the GM.  Hey, should I spend this three million bucks I save every year on more scouts?  Nah.

He was (is?) paying himself $1m/yr bonus to be GM of the Bengals.