I'll say it: In sports $250 million isn't that much.

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(09-18-2023, 11:44 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: People out here bitching about how much Joe makes like it comes out of their pocket or something. It's the weirdest thing. People did the same thing with Votto.

Who cares how much these guys make.

I don't know the secret of life, but when it comes to sports or politics or just getting along with people in general I find that the more I can not care about what other people have, the more mellow I am.

I get why people are frustrated, expectations are a biotch.  We laugh at Browns fans for thinking they'll be anything other than crap but here were are bombarding ourselves with expectations that aren't coming through quite yet.

We expected Burrow to be 100% and ready for week 1 after being carted off the field, and he wasn't.
We expected Burrow to take an unreasonably friendly deal, and he didn't.
We expected to beat the crappy Browns and their rub n' tug enthusiast QB, we didn't.
We expected to have a get-right game against the beat up Ravens, we didn't.

and now we are combating the sting of setting and missing expectations by expecting the Bengals to just do their usual thing and go on a 10+ game winning streak and tear through the playoffs only stopping to worry during the 4th quarter of the AFC Championship game and/or Super Bowl.  



We've got great expectations like we're Tess D'Ubervilles or something (I never read the book, I'm just guessing here).