Dolphins wanted Burrow really, really bad…

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(02-01-2022, 08:12 PM)JaggedJimmyJay Wrote: Malik Wright really hit it on the head:

https://twitter.com/Wrightreportt/status/1488644397281513472

We're fortunate to have an owner with integrity. Say what you want: Mike Brown would never pull this shit.

I love that he truly seems to LOVE football. He has never treated the Bengals like a corporation. This isn't just money to him. He has always treated it like a Mom and Pop shop.

That, obviously, has caused many of the issues that the team has suffered through for so long. Not hiring a GM, not having enough scouts, not having an indoor practice facility etc. His refusal to sign a bad contract (like a fully guaranteed deal or anything like that) has made Cincinnati a Free Agent deadzone for a long time that relies on drafted players to take suboptimal contracts to remain. His loyalty to a fault, etc.

But it also makes him endearing. He is a fan, like all of us. And if you put a fan in charge of a team, they probably wouldn't be the best manager of that team, but they would almost always have their heart in the right place.

This may just be recency bias with us finally having success and he'll do something that will infuriate the fanbase in the near future, but right about now I think Mike Brown, while not being a good owner necessarily, is one of the few owners that seems to be a genuinely good person.

Which is a nice thing to realize about your team. Especially when other teams have guys like Dan Snyder and Stephen Ross making the decisions...