02-22-2025, 02:26 PM
(02-18-2025, 12:26 PM)Whatever Wrote: The world will never have a shortage of poor people who think they know how to better manage the finances of the wealthy.
If you're pointing at franchise valuation, the Bengals were ranked 32nd by Forbes last year. The Jags are 31st. Jaguars owner Shad Khan also owns an English Premier League soccer team and has literally wasted hundreds of millions on All Elite Wrestling so his son can live out his dreams of being a fantasy booker.
Everything is relative. To us, the Brown family could just wipe their asses with our yearly salary. However, when it comes to talent contacts, the club competes with entities that can buy and sell them multiple times over. The aforementioned Shad Khan is worth $13.4 billion. Robert Kraft is worth $11.7 billion. Jerry Jones is worth $16+ billion. That $4 billion doesn't sound so impressive now, does it?
Who gives a **** how it sounds comparatively? The NFL has a salary cap. Other, wealthier owners can't outspend the less wealthy like the Dodgers do the Reds. The Bengals have more than enough money to be as competitive as ANY NFL franchise. They just have to decide if they're willing to manipulate the cap the way other teams do and be creative to field a championship roster. They don't lack the funds, they lack the want.
I don't get why anyone is bothering to debate this because there is no question that the Bengals can do whatever they choose to do, money not being a limiting factor.
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