Difference between 2015 team and 2021 team?

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(06-04-2022, 03:53 PM)puddycat Wrote: What a player threatens to do to the front office is almost completely divorced from what they do on the field.  Whitworth had never hit free agency without signing an extension until that last 1 year extension with the Bengals.  He valued the security and the Bengals didn't want to give it to him.  As the Bengals now know, a player without a future contract might have great contract year play, and might have insecure unfocused play.  Every player is different.
Whitworth didn't mail it in his last year in Cincinnati.  The Bengals got exactly what they wanted, and what they deserved.  The Rams signed the 4th highest contract for an LT the 2017 offseason(about 10th highest LT per year overall) and got an All-Pro. Get over it.

This is why I appreciate what Whit did. He didn't sit out, he didn't whine on Social media. he didn't "leak" his unhappiness through his agent. He explained his stance to the owner and never took a play off or publicly distracted from the team. 

None of us know what Whit would have done if PB hadn't agreed to the extension, but Whit played the card he had.

As to parting ways with Whit: I always said the Bengals did it right; it's just the results didn't reap what we'd hoped.