AJ Green retires

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(02-07-2023, 10:20 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Well we can disagree, he started 14 games so he did not beg out with some weak injury but struggled as did most of the team during Burrows 1st year.. and I think was just not the player he once was  more than anything..   Dillion left in 2003 , Chad  after 2010 season.. big difference. we made playoffs in 208-09, Chad was part of the downhill slide after that.. he slide started after his HOF jacket thing.. i will take AJ and the way he presented himself and the organization over Chad.  That does not mean Chad did not perform on the field, he had some great years but AJ was just a better representative of the team during their career. 

There was some question around the end of '19 about whether he could have come back or whether he made a 'business decision' to sit out the rest of the year. 2020 he just looked to be mentally out of it, to me. Maybe it was the lingering mental issue with the injury, maybe he just didn't have it. I just never got the sense that he was bought in and giving it 100%. 

I don't have a problem with how AJ carried himself. He was head and shoulders above Chad. They'll both go down as great Bengals wide receivers, just in different ways.