(01-22-2020, 03:46 PM)kevin Wrote: With Free Agency coming, it's something to consider.   Don't all act surprised if both end up on other teams.   I have a feeling both want to test the market and see what other teams offer them.   I also have a feeling both would like a change.  Nothing against the people of Cincinnati.  Just that sometimes going to another team starts looking good after all the losing.  I wouldn't blame them, and some team will offer AJ Green huge bucks.   Also, if Mike Brown wanted them, they would have been resigned way before free agency.   All arrows point to Mike not resigning them means he decided he was willing to part with them many months ago.  

Anyway, if both are gone come March, don't be all surprised about it.

It will free up a ton of money for Burrow and many new players.  They do have to build for the new decade of the Roaring 20's.  Freeing up a ton of money is music to Mike Browns ears.

(01-22-2020, 03:49 PM)grampahol Wrote: Well, it's not as if either is completely irreplaceable. We all get replaced at some point. The only questions are when and if the replacement is up to the tasks.. Loyalty is nice, but there is a point at which loyalty can become a real liability.

(01-22-2020, 04:05 PM)kevin Wrote: All true, but may we add that on Point and Time, that Mike Brown has let their contracts run out at this point, and this time.  Mike Brown takes no cap hit, pays no extra wages.  The 2 highest paid contracts on the team are no more.   A team wanting AJ can grab him.  A team wanting Andy can grab him.  Often Mike Brown has let players contracts run out if he has replacements or not.   We could say Mike was thinking this when he drafted Ross.   Now with chance to get Burrow, those are the replacements.  Certainly Mike Brown on letting the contracts run out has set the point and the time up as NOW.   These contracts didn't run out on accident, the Front Office didn't fail to see these contracts ending after 2019.  Myself, I'll be very surprised if either are back.  That means AJ played his last Bengals game in 2018 under Marvin, so Bengals have been getting a look at other receivers over a year now. 

(01-22-2020, 04:11 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: Green didn't play a single down this season, he should sign a 1 yr deal for cheap to help out Burrow for Mikes generosity. If only Green knew how many hours Ive worked for peanuts.

(01-22-2020, 03:59 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I'm ready for Dalton to no longer be a Bengal.

Not ready for Green to go.

I want him to retire a Bengal.

Give him his deal and let him make Burrow's life a little easier.

(01-22-2020, 04:05 PM)kevin Wrote: All true, but may we add that on Point and Time, that Mike Brown has let their contracts run out at this point, and this time.  Mike Brown takes no cap hit, pays no extra wages.  The 2 highest paid contracts on the team are no more.   A team wanting AJ can grab him.  A team wanting Andy can grab him.  Often Mike Brown has let players contracts run out if he has replacements or not.   We could say Mike was thinking this when he drafted Ross.   Now with chance to get Burrow, those are the replacements.  Certainly Mike Brown on letting the contracts run out has set the point and the time up as NOW.   These contracts didn't run out on accident, the Front Office didn't fail to see these contracts ending after 2019.  Myself, I'll be very surprised if either are back.  That means AJ played his last Bengals game in 2018 under Marvin, so Bengals have been getting a look at other receivers over a year now.  Bengals benched Andy to look at what's his name.

(01-22-2020, 04:29 PM)R3stangs Wrote: By cheering him on from the sideline?

Eh, I'm ready to move on from both.

(01-22-2020, 04:13 PM)Synric Wrote: I don't think Dalton will be here but AJ Green is going to be tagged so unless they can't get him locked down long term and holds out he will be here in 2020.

(01-22-2020, 04:29 PM)R3stangs Wrote: By cheering him on from the sideline?

Eh, I'm ready to move on from both.

(01-22-2020, 04:41 PM)bengals1969 Wrote: AJ health is totally unknown to the fans at this point.  Very concerning his injury was so severe he didn't play at all and wasn't on IR.  Baffling.
If he's healthy and hasn't missed a step I sign him on a team friendly deal for the first year and every year, much like Dalton's current deal.  He'd be a tremendous asset to Joe Burrow.  With Mixon and Gio out of the backfield, defenses have harder problems to solve, ie Burrow can have the entire field to use.  Boyd ain't bad either so the team is more lethal with AJ, a generational talent on the field.  Keep that guy(if healthy).

Dalton will be gone and it looks like to a mutually agreeable destination.  

(01-22-2020, 04:11 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: Green didn't play a single down this season, he should sign a 1 yr deal for cheap to help out Burrow for Mikes generosity. If only Green knew how many hours Ive worked for peanuts.

(01-22-2020, 04:20 PM)kevin Wrote: Mike and generosity in same sentence.  

(01-22-2020, 06:54 PM)Sled21 Wrote: To the original point, it's pretty much a given Andy is gone and AJ is staying.

(01-22-2020, 06:54 PM)Sled21 Wrote: You don't think Mike is generous? Really? How many other owners do you think would keep a less than average defensive lineman on the 53 man roster for the sole purpose of keeping said player's daughter on the team insurance while she was having cancer treatments? For all the crap we can lay on Mike Brown, there is no reason to make things up.

To the original point, it's pretty much a given Andy is gone and AJ is staying.