Whitworth-Bengals lowballed

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(12-05-2018, 12:51 AM)Benton Wrote: I think Mike brown believes he's loyal to his players and he expects them to reciprocate. 

Which is silly. Drafting a guy abd waiting till the final year of their deal to play them considerably or resigning a guy isnt being loyal to them.

I think that loyalty has always been a Brown family value.  We all have our blind spots and it's one of theirs in the sense that they give it to a fault and require it to a fault.

Remember the gag rule they imposed that lost one of our punters (last name Johnson I believe) his job?

And I can't help but feel that one of the reasons that they hired Tiger Johnson over Bill Walsh was 1) They were loyal to Tiger and 2) I don't think they felt Walsh was all that loyal to them, or should have been loyal enough to stay under Johnson.

So it may have played into their approach.  But I think Whit was sending them the message that he believed he was worth a multiyear contract and the Bengals just disagreed.

And they were wrong.