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Originally Posted by seamonster
They went cheap. The Bengals are the definition of a discount best-price team... They had to sell their stadium rights to afford Burrows contract. So for them to out bid the Chiefs is a sign that the front office wasn't committed to Brown. Could have been his attitude or talent, but the results speak for themselves. With the amount of liquidity floating around the KC Chiefs organization if they really wanted too they could have come up with an agreement.
All water under the bridge now. If they're lucky they might snag Alaric Jackson. And if they do it's probably going to break LT contract records.
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They didn't 'go cheap'.
What they did was kinda hem Brown in.
And to an extent, I understand Brown's reluctance. The Chiefs apparently offered him a deal with too much term for the amount of guarantees they were offering. The Bengals offered him ballpark money (some say a little more, some say a little less) but didn't have him sign a 5 year deal to get it.
Brown simply wanted to be able to get back onto the FA market if he'd outplayed his deal. I get that.
That said, you're ignoring the fact that MOST of this headache came from Brown ****ing around and not hiring a goddamn agent until JUNE. And then because of the tag deadline, the Chiefs couldn't negotiate a long term deal with him for more than a week or two. And after he played out that tag season without meaningful progress (he didn't want to negotiate in-season) they were unwilling to be put through that bullshit he pulled the previous off-season again.
Some of it was money. Some of it was risk.
A LOT of it was Orlando Brown Jr being a weird ****ing guy. And in the end, he hasn't even played to the level of the deal he rejected so...what are we even yapping about at this point?