No excuses for Mikey

[Cbus cardsfan]

Many times, I see people make the excuse for Bidwill that he's "cash poor" compared to other owners and, thus, makes it harder for him to keep or sign free agents. I've called bunk on this from day 1. All owners are billionaires, and money is never an issue, only a convenient excuse.

Mike Brown and the Bengals have proven that to be the case. Brown is the least wealthy owner in the league. Yet, in the last 2 years he's made Joe Burrow the highest paid, at the time, QB in the league, just made JaMarr Chase the highest paid non-QB in the league, re-signed Tee Higgins to make him the highest paid #2 WR in the league, and in the near future, is reportedly going sign Trey Hendrickson to an extension making him one the highest paid DE's in the league.

This all from the reported cheapest owner in the NFL who, like Bidwill, has the NFL as their only business and family owned. The excuses are crap, and the salary cap is another falsehood when it comes to retaining, acquiring talent as Chase's and Higgins cap # actually decreased for this season after signing their deals.

 

[phillycard]

Hard to wash that cheapness stench from this organization. How many times have we had to make the "hard" decisions to retain "real" talent? Fitz, Pat P, Budda? We didn't blink an eye when it came time to let B. Murph and Zach go. Problems like the eagles, Bengals, and Niners have recently experienced aren't relatable when it comes to us. We've been able to hide under the constant losing. I'm praying that changes and we see what he's really about.

 

[Stout]

Well, yeah.

 

[CardNots]

Many times, I see people make the excuse for Bidwill that he's "cash poor" compared to other owners and, thus, makes it harder for him to keep or sign free agents. I've called bunk on this from day 1. All owners are billionaires, and money is never an issue, only a convenient excuse.

Mike Brown and the Bengals have proven that to be the case. Brown is the least wealthy owner in the league. Yet, in the last 2 years he's made Joe Burrow the highest paid, at the time, QB in the league, just made JaMarr Chase the highest paid non-QB in the league, re-signed Tee Higgins to make him the highest paid #2 WR in the league, and in the near future, is reportedly going sign Trey Hendrickson to an extension making him one the highest paid DE's in the league.

This all from the reported cheapest owner in the NFL who, like Bidwill, has the NFL as their only business and family owned. The excuses are crap, and the salary cap is another falsehood when it comes to retaining, acquiring talent as Chase's and Higgins cap # actually decreased for this season after signing their deals.

Didn’t seem like Kyler’s contract was cheap at the time. Baker’s contract was pretty stout at the time of his signing as well.

Poor salary management has been a problem for this franchise but i do not agree owner wealth has the same impact today as previous decades.

I remember it being reported that Bill Bidwill said after the playoff win against the Cowboys that now players will want bigger salaries.

I really believe Bill was just cheap by nature not based on his lack of perceived wealth as an owner.

I’ve not seen this behavior from his son as i did with dad.

 

[kerouac9]

You have more options when working to keep players in-house. The current problem is that we don't have enough good players, so we aren't really concerned about losing them.

Under today's CBA, it sure feels like top-line free agency help is going to be less accessible.

Our pending 2026 free agents of note are McBride, Jonah Williams, and Kelvin Beachum.

 

[kerouac9]

I remember it being reported that Bill Bidwill said after the playoff win against the Cowboys that now players will want bigger salaries.

That was also nearly 30 years ago and I'm not sure how relevant it is to today's business operations.

"The disease of me" is real, but it doesn't have anything to do with fiscal conservatism on the side of the owner.

I don't believe that the Bidwill family are cash flow constrained, but I do believe they're unwilling to stretch themselves financially. That said, they haven't really had reason to since the first year DHop was here -- the team hasn't been good enough to justify it.