Robert Griffin likely to start against us

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(12-07-2016, 12:50 PM)ochocincos Wrote: They care more about making the Bengals "pay" now that they are the "villains", not necessarily giving the Steelers the Super Bowl.

I don't see the profit in making the Bengals "pay."  I'm more likely to believe they want to see the Patriots and Steelers play in the AFC title game to pull in massive ratings while the Packers and Seahawks play in the NFC so they can talk about the final 4 dynasty franchises squaring off and so on and so forth.

Look, it's naive to think there are no ulterior motives at work within the NFL but the reason people do sleazy stuff is because of money.  There is no money in "making the Bengals look bad."  Hell, the Bengals becoming a huge villainous franchise ala the old school Raiders or the Philadelphia Flyers/Detriot Pistons etc could actually be profitable for the Bengals.

So unless the NFL is going out of their way to build brand equity for Mike Brown I think we can list this theory under "Unlikely."