Brady as Mentor?

[jfkbengals]

(01-23-2020, 07:18 PM)muskiesfan Wrote: Why don't we sign Brady to the ~$35-36m a year deal that is being rumored as the "starting point" of negotiations and keep Dalton on for his final year at $17.7m and then Burrow can be mentored by Dalton while Brady has a worse team, weapons, coaching, and ownership to lead us to the Super Bowl!

A big part of the reason that it's being rumored that Brady wants out of New England is it's his last chance at a big payday and he feels they're short on weapons. An injured AJ Green, a #2 having to be #1 (Boyd), and an oft-injured #3 in Ross are not better weapons than what he had in New England. The OLine is worse. The only for sure upgrade would be Mixon. Add in an inexperienced head coach who calls the plays and also has an OC that combined are not as good as his HC or OC he's leaving, much less combined. I just don't see what the draw would be for Brady to even consider Cincinnati as a real option.

At best I could see the Bengals used as leverage to get an even bigger contract than where he eventually signs, but even that is laughable. With his age, I'm sure Troy Blackburn would feel $10m a year is the best they could do.

That, from what I have read, is the entire problem.  His whole career he has played for peanuts to insure the team could have cap space for playmakers on both sides of the ball.  And now he feels slighted because he sacrificed the money he could have made and they still allowed the cupboard to become bare.