Bengals Front Office Needs To Get With It.

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(07-09-2025, 08:41 AM)Bronxbengal Wrote: TJ’s quote from the following article on his contract frustrations highlights how inept the Brown family is on running a team.  They spent $24 million signing washed up Cole and Bryant but all they had to do was give TJ the money.  There wouldn’t be the drama and they had a proven WR.  We seen this before with Whitworth.  Now they are doing it with Trey and the backup isn’t signed.  

https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/allbengals-insiders-plus/former-bengals-star-highlights-contract-talk-frustration-01jzn7k5nqr6

TJ was going into his age 32 season when the bengals let him walk. Obviously Bryant didn’t work out, but TO outproduced TJ in 2009 on almost identical targets. TJ only saw one year on the 4 year deal he signed with the Seahawks, and he was declining as a player. Cole’s was another swing and miss. But if they had signed TJ, almost certainly the bengals would have gotten diminishing returns as well. Sure TJ can be frustrated all he wants, but at 32, his best seasons were behind him.