The obvious jumps out in this story.....

[Sled21]

http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Rooting-interest/64be23bb-097d-4347-87cb-4049f0e90cb3

Story from the home page about all the trades Mike Brown and Bill Belichick have made over the years. Get that in your head, Mike Brown and Bill Belichick. Not Mike Brown and Robert Kraft. Not Bill Belichick and Mervin Lewis...... Owner vs. Coach. Just another way NE does things differently...

[Interceptor]

So we always end up with the short end of the deal.

[Au165]

(02-01-2018, 10:06 AM)Sled21 Wrote: http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Rooting-interest/64be23bb-097d-4347-87cb-4049f0e90cb3

Story from the home page about all the trades Mike Brown and Bill Belichick have made over the years. Get that in your head, Mike Brown and Bill Belichick. Not Mike Brown and Robert Kraft. Not Bill Belichick and Mervin Lewis...... Owner vs. Coach. Just another way NE does things differently...

Bill Belicheck is the GM of the Patriots and Mike Brown is technically our GM.

[BenZoo2]

(02-01-2018, 10:26 AM)Au165 Wrote: Bill Belicheck is the GM of the Patriots and Mike Brown is technically our GM.

And one guy wins championships and makes money. The other makes money.


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[Au165]

(02-01-2018, 10:41 AM)BenZoo2 Wrote: And one guy wins championships and makes money.  The other makes money.


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That wasn't the point the guy was making with his initial statement from his last comment of "owner vs coach". He acted as if this interaction was strange, the reality is the two guys with GM titles for their respective teams did trades. 

[RASCAL]

(02-01-2018, 10:50 AM)Au165 Wrote: That wasn't the point the guy was making with his initial statement from his last comment of "owner vs coach". He acted as if this interaction was strange, the reality is the two guys with GM titles for their respective teams did trades. 

here, let this sink in for a minute:

Bill Belichick 5x SB winner as coach and gm and heading for SB win 6

elmer fudd brown ox loser in all first round plyoffs as gm  he loses either way

that's the point!

[BMK]

....and it's not as if MB doesn't deal with all the other GMs' in the league.....but let's paint the picture that the Bengals and Pats have some sort of 'special' relationship between them.....as if we're equals behind the scenes. The Bengals PR dpt must have commissioned this article.

[*Go Cards*]

From the way NE finds diamonds in the rough got to think their scouting department is bigger than a broom closet too.

[XenoMorph]

(02-01-2018, 10:10 AM)Interceptor Wrote: So we always end up with the short end of the deal.

Not always....    we got marvin jones out of ocho cinco who was quickly out of the league

[Au165]

(02-01-2018, 11:38 AM)RASCAL Wrote: here, let this sink in for a minute:

Bill Belichick 5x SB winner as coach and gm and heading for SB win 6

elmer fudd brown ox loser in all first round plyoffs as gm  he loses either way

that's the point!

Again then why is he giving examples of people Belicheck could be trading with inside our organization and who we could deal with there? Trying to act as if the fact their coach was trading with our owner was relevant, which it isn't because they are both GMs, was a whiff. My guess is simply OP didn't know that Belicheck was the GM not just the coach. There are a bunch of ways to bag on the team this one was simply a swing and a miss. 

The Bengals don't have Bill Belicheck, that is all the OP has shown. Congrats neither do 30 other teams! Belicheck also trades with those teams GMs too.

[Lionel Hutz]

Mutual respect, eh? I'm sure Belicheck/New England with their 5 Super Bowl Championships are sitting around on a daily basis admiring the job Mike Brown has done with the Bengals.

[XenoMorph]

(02-01-2018, 01:24 PM)Lionel Hutz Wrote: Mutual respect, eh? I'm sure Belicheck/New England with their 5 Super Bowl Championships are sitting around on a daily basis admiring the job Mike Brown has done with the Bengals.

he respects the brown family...     Its not a bad thing to have bilichek as a friend... someday he might wanna be a GM somewhere else..

[grampahol]

It isn't exactly as if there are millions of NFL general managers sitting around doing, well anything . There's a fine line between NFL GM and wannabe NFL GMs.. 
It's actually a bit more than a fine line..more like a HUGE swath on a continental scale . 
Anyway, the article isn't about the win and loss records of either team. I'm seeing it more about them being able to sit down and have a rational discussion about the business of football. 

[Sled21]

Well, I did not realize Belichick was the GM in NE, I just thought he was the HC. Nevermind then..... now it makes more sense.

[Au165]

(02-01-2018, 01:42 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Well, I did not realize Belichick was the GM in NE, I just thought he was the HC. Nevermind then..... now it makes more sense.

No problem, most people don't ever really think about that part of what is going on in NE. He has had some successes but Belicheck the GM has had plenty of blunders too.

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(02-01-2018, 01:34 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: he respects the brown family...     Its not a bad thing to have bilichek as a friend... someday he might wanna be a GM somewhere else..

Won't be here, unfortunately.

[XenoMorph]

(02-01-2018, 05:36 PM)Wyche Wrote: Won't be here, unfortunately.

lol probly not...  Just hopefully not cleveland

[Interceptor]

To be fair, Belichick and Brown combine to have 5 Super Bowl rings.

[HarleyDog]

(02-01-2018, 01:34 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: he respects the brown family...     Its not a bad thing to have bilichek as a friend... someday he might wanna be a GM somewhere else..

Maybe if he gets Alzheimer’s and forgets how bad this organization sucks he will wanna be here.

[HarleyDog]

(02-01-2018, 08:39 PM)Interceptor Wrote: To be fair, Belichick and Brown combine to have 5 Super Bowl rings.

I feel better.