Whitworth-Bengals lowballed

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(12-05-2018, 08:02 PM)Whatever Wrote: All the organizations that are consistently good are trying to get out from under expensive vets before they start sliding downhill.  That's just the nature of the business.  If they can't, they either ask them to take a pay cut or release them.  I mean the Steelers cut James Harrison and strongarmed Troy Polamalu into retirement.  When you win, the fans don't bat an eye.

Very few non-QB's play out a 10+ year career with one team.  The few that do are great players and are willing to take less money over the course of their career to stay in one place.  Whit was the former, but not the latter.  That doesn't make him a bad guy anymore than it makes the Bengals bad guys for not wanting to write blank checks to a 34 year old T  when they already thought they had his replacement.  

How could they have been THAT stupid?  Who could not see the level of suckiness, especially in CedO? 

There are at least two levels of stupid at play in this debacle.