10-24-2017, 01:36 PM
(10-24-2017, 01:30 PM)grampahol Wrote: When you can make billions of dollars by losing that's not failure.
Ask yourself if someone paid you billions of dollars to lose would you feel like you lost anything other than your soul? Of course not.
We as fans lose, of course, but the team owners, coaches and players win regardless of the outcome of the games. When the lowest paid player on the team is paid nearly a half a million dollars per season how can anyone consider that losing? In a sensible world anyone playing for a team with a 1-15 record would be paid accordingly, barely enough to get by, but not in the NFL.
Kevin Zeitler got a huge pay raise to lose. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. In the real world any player going to Cleveland ought to be taking a huge pay cut ,but this ain't exactly reality now is it?
The NFL is a unique industry with it's revenue sharing and massive TV revenue. Normal business forces don't apply. Plus, owners hold cities hostage to get a nice new stadium.
If you owned a business that sold a bad product...you'd go out of business.
But, you hit the nail on the head. I think fans care more about the losses than the Bengals Management. I think they want to win, but it's a business 1st and foremost and a business's goal is profitability for the shareholders.
