Difference between 2015 team and 2021 team?

[Mike M (the other one)]

(06-05-2022, 01:02 AM)jj22 Wrote: Does a 1 year extension really make players feel any more secure? I'm not sure what else it could have been but financial. Bad business deals will eat into those millions. I find it odd he settled for a 1 year deal when he was so unhappy he wrote the owner of the team and threatened to quit. 1 more year did nothing to answer the kids in school question...  

I think the 1 yr ext was to show them he's still got it, but they didn't franchise him because they certainly didn't expect him to get the deal he got from the rams. In hindsight, it would have been worth it for the Bengals to keep him, but at the time, age, $$ and top draft pick, they were ready to move on. Just more or less ended up as just about the worst possible nightmare outcome.