(03-15-2019, 05:00 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: Having night clubs is the key to winning. Ha!

(03-15-2019, 05:24 PM)TSwigZ Wrote: Perks of having an outspoken franchise QB and a real GM

(03-15-2019, 03:35 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Players will take the most money is the bottom line.

Oakland and Cleveland shouldn't be on that bottom list. They both have a history of paying their players well.

Agents don't like Cincinnati because negotiations is a real job for them.

Also Cincinnati doesn't have a night life or a life style opportunity like many other teams. IE Miami with the Beaches etc.

(03-16-2019, 07:28 AM)BonnieBengal Wrote: Personally I think Mayfield will prove to be a head case and overrated.

(03-15-2019, 03:23 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: You don't buy it? Really?

C'mon, let's try to appear to be even the slightest bit objective here. 

This team has been attatched to the following stories...

-Sent a 300+ pound Tony Siragusa a coach plane ticket for his free agency visit. (He canceled by the way)
-Rents HDMI cables to it's players for training camp. This one is a little unfair. I'm sure the team really need that $237 dollars and put it to good use.
-Had their 1st round RB (Kijana Carter) buy new towels for the offensive lineman out of his own pocket, after repeated complaints about them being too small.
-Had a coin-operated pop machine in the clubhouse. (What did that bad boy generate a year? An extra $1,500?)
-Rationed Gatorade, and prevented players from grabbing one for the road. (Again, we're talking hundreds in savings.
-HAS THEIR TEAM PRACTICING OUTDOORS LIKE THIS IS MESA, AZ AND NOT CINCINNATI, AND LIKE THIS IS PEE-WEE AND NOT THE NFL!!!!

The list goes on and on. Yet you don't buy the idea that this team is viewed as cheap? 

You think agents are only concerned with "big paydays" and not players?  Um....what?

(03-16-2019, 07:15 PM)Older Than You Too Wrote: They also tried giving them used jock straps and socks.

(03-16-2019, 07:20 PM)BonnieBengal Wrote: And they have those coin operated toilets in the bathroom.

(03-16-2019, 09:10 PM)Circleville Guy Wrote: For those of you that are saying that the Petty things that the Bengals do don’t add up and annoy any players, I think you’re wrong. It’s an earned reputation and I’m sure that as gossip spreads that some of the stories become embellished. They obviously have a reputation for being cheap, it’s silly to pretend that they don’t. For the most part, even the teams own fans know this. Remember not too long ago when there wasn’t a minimum amount that each team has to spend?

(03-16-2019, 07:23 PM)Older Than You Too Wrote: Except, sadly, my post wasn't sarcasm. They really did try giving players used socks and jock straps. TJ and Ashley Ambrose confirmed it.

(03-17-2019, 09:37 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: So, 18 of 32 teams in the league got negative "votes" from agents claiming that players they represent didn't want to play for those teams?

You realize that 18/32 is more than half the league, right?  How about the simple fact that some players and agents aren't happy unless they're both being grossly overpaid by their respective teams?

(03-17-2019, 12:21 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: What other incentive would we have to only have 9 player personnel employees when most teams have double to triple that?

Yeah...scouts cost money.

(03-16-2019, 07:20 PM)BonnieBengal Wrote: And they have those coin operated toilets in the bathroom.

(03-17-2019, 01:37 PM)GodFather Wrote:

(03-17-2019, 05:21 PM)Older Than You Too Wrote: 1. Yes, it is true.

2. Who cares what you say or think, you're the laughing stock of this forum.

(03-17-2019, 06:10 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: TJ told Colin that Willie Anderson told him that from the previous year, when Housh wasn't on the team. 

The facts of the matter is, the Bengals would wash the jock straps and then just throw them all in a big white bin and the players would have to rummage through them to find one that fit them. It could have been one that was used by them previously or one that was used by someone else previously. The equipment manager (on word from management) would not allow the players to write their initials on the jock straps because the black ink could run and stain all the jocks. 

That is a fact and an eye witness account from me because i was at spinney field several times during practices to change locks on various occasions and i saw the bin and heard the players "joking" around about whose jock strap was whose. 

(03-17-2019, 08:17 PM)Older Than You Too Wrote: I was referring to this as a first hand account of it. It's the first reply to the tweet.

"Housh is not lying at all. When I got there as a free agent in 1995 Tom the equipment guy at the time showed me a basket full of used jock straps and socks to choose from and I was like hell no. That’s facts!!"  -   Ashley Ambrose

(03-17-2019, 12:21 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: What other incentive would we have to only have 9 player personnel employees when most teams have double to triple that?

Yeah...scouts cost money.