2019 Salary Cap - Bengals Cap Space

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(12-12-2018, 12:43 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: Ha, I was going mostly for the joke at the end, but I guess that failed miserably. 

On a more serious note though, when you look at Mike Brown, his estimated net worth is around one billion. A guy like Pat Bowlen of the Broncos is also estimated at one billion. The Raiders Mark Davis is only worth half that. Both are ranked among the "poorest" NFL owners. Bill Bidwell is worth just a little more than Mike, and his family has made the majority of their money in football. The Rooney family is worth just over one billion, and again, the majority came from football. Another example are the McCaskey's in Chicago where the entire family worth is around 1.5 billion and most of that wealth came from football.

I'm just saying let's not cry poverty for Mike Brown or say that he can't operate on equal footing. For me, it comes down to the owner's philosophy, decisions and how they choose to spend the money. 

Note what I said is that the basics of cash flow accounting for a franchise whose owners have no side businesses and therefore cannot run the team at a loss lead to some (not all) of the strange decisions we see the club make.