Everyone knows that Willie is my favorite player, so I’m sort of biased on that one. I’m bitter about this cut, because it doesn’t make since with the team’s depth, they’re not going to use the money they’re saving for Willie for any other player, and, well, behind Munoz, he’s one of the greatest Bengals tackles in team history.

actually give them cap room- or are we still, as people kept saying about a Chad trade, on the books for Willie’s guaranteed money well into the future? You know, like counting against our cap figure next year, the year after that, and so on? If the latter is the case, then this move makes no sense from a financial standpoint either.

As great as he is/was, Willie isn’t nearly HoF material. Willie’s not Munoz. Anthony was the dominant tackle of the entire NFL for most of his career. Willie wasn’t even the dominant tackle in the AFC North- see; Ogden, Jonathan. Willie also suffers from the sheer depth of our ineptitude as a team throughout the bulk of his career. Not his fault, obviously, but a factor the HoF considers.

Regardless, he’s a HoF’ er in our hearts, a HoF ‘er as a human being, and, if we needed any more proof that Mikey and Co. should be removed from their posts, Willie getting the bum’s rush pretty much seals it.

War Eagle, Willie!

I, like many of you, question this move.

The only difference for me is the TIMING. This franchise has made a habit of paying player for past accomplishments for decades, and Willie was the best example I could give of that statement last offseason. With Willie’s health a concern (that was valid throughout last year), the Bengals re-upped his contract and let one of the best pulling guards I’ve seen in many a year walk in Steinbach. If they had done this a year ago with a little bit of tact I would have had no problem with it once I removed my heart from the equation.

Now they don’t have either player, and Willie was unceremoniously released eight days before the start of the season.

that you could bring the entire Patriots team here and, in Mike Brown’s clutches, they’d be a perennial cellar dweller. Or, shorter;
Mike Brown could fuck up a wet dream.