03-06-2016, 11:56 AM
(03-06-2016, 01:25 AM)jowczarski Wrote: But I also covered the Packers for three years and this is the same lament their fan base has – and they’ve landed Charles Woodson and Julius Peppers in the last 10 years. But that’s it. Seriously. We know the names, but that’s literally it. So I guess they’ve signed two more upper-middle tier difference makers at that point (but they were in their 30s, no one wanted to sign them – only Ted saw that they had something left.)
First of all I want to say again how great it is to have a professional journalist covering our team to step into the mess that is a fan message board. Pretty much everyone of us here are hard core Bengal fans burdened with years of bad experiences. Although the Packers are the closest to the Bengals in their personnel decisions the Packers do not have stigma of losing and players complaining about how cheap the team was. Their are some people here who can not discuss free agent decisions in 2015 without bringing up Bengal players complaining about small towels in the locker room thirty years ago. In 2011 Johnathan Joseph left us when we were projected to be the absolute worst team in the league to join the Texans who were at that time considered serious Super Bowl contenders (same off season that Palmer walked away) and many people around here act like it was because Joseph was not allowed to take home unlimited amounts of gatrorade from the Bengal facilities. I think it is good for all of us to hear the opinion of a person who is detached from the decades of frustration (and sometimes embarrassment) that have passed since our last playoff victory.
Now for my question. The packers are the only publicly held NFL team ran like a business. The Bengals are about the only team in the league where the team is the sole family business. Most teams are owned by men who made fortunes in other businesses and just bought a team for entertainment purposes. Do you think the unique ownership situation of the Bengal and Packers have an effect on their conservative personnel strategy?
