***Official Bengals Free Agency Thread***

[George Cantstandya]

(03-15-2021, 07:20 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: If you have already won 2 Super Bowls and want to be close to your family, then you probably aren't worried about the head coach. 

I took a job that paid less then another to move back to Cincinnati because I wanted to be near my family. It's actually kind of common. Read the reports of WJIII looking at signing with the Texans, because he wants to go back to Houston... comfort in your surroundings is a big deal.

So... again, it was not rumors it was written about widely that Thuney liked the idea of being close to his family and back home. There was a great opportunity and we wasted it and the only people who don't seem to get that are Mike Brown defenders.

I think you are wildly over valuing the close to family thing.  We are talking about players that make millions of dollars and can afford to spend time with family no matter where they live.   Of course the COVID thing has complicated that a bit but it is settling down now. 

But again Bengals with a losing head coach or a team that was in the Super Bowl the last two years and won one?   If the money is the same what would you pick?  I think most NFL players made it to where they are because they like to win.  So I don't really get the, "I already won 2 Super Bowls so it's time to settle for a team that isn't so great," argument. They train and do everything they can to win and do everything they can to be on winning teams.  They like winning and being on winning teams increases their value for the next contract as long as they preform well.  

As much as I would have loved landing Thuney, he earned what he got and his effort landed him on one of the current top teams in the NFL. Good for him.