Born and raised in Cincinnati. 28 years in SoCal, but back in Cincinnati in 2015.

You want "to see what Cincy does with Burrow?"

Mike Brown (the smartest businessman ever to be born in the State of Ohio) will, in a nutshell, ruin the poor guy. Destroy his morale, destroy his confidence, and finally, rob him of all joy.

DL

Ted Turner was born in Ohio.

And may I ad that Jim Backus, AKA Thurston Howell III, was also. :D

In all sports, the "system" is designed to "let the cream rise to the top" it then becomes ALL mental.
Its called "Mamba Mentality" for a reason at that level

So they'll do to him what they've done to every QB since Esiason. Being a Steelers fan I'm okay with that!

There are 32 NFL teams, so there are really only 64 NFL QB jobs. Of those 64 only the top 15 really matter. Its as simple as that. Are you one of the top 64 in the country?

I coached elite youth hockey for 10 years. I used to quietly laugh at the parents who were sure their 12 year old was an NHL player in the making. There are millions of kids all over the world who play hockey and there are fewer than 800 jobs in the NHL. I used to tell them to just do the math.

Our son swam in the summer league and then started year round. He seemed to have a natural talent and did very well with three state high school championships, multiple state records, etc. He was recruited by many schools. Nationally ranked, etc.

Then he went to university to swim and became a small fish in a big pond, but his goal was to use swimming to open the door to get in a great school for the education.

Edit: I remember meeting with him and his coach. She was sure he was going to the Olympics and was pissed when he said he was only using swimming to get into a great school. I was not happy with her and she wasn’t his coach after that. He achieved his goal.

Thurston Howell III was, admittedly a smart guy, but...

Despite owning just 10 percent of the team at its inception, Paul Brown utilized profits to buy out minority owners during the franchise’s early years. Then in 1983, he sold 117 of his 118 shares to investor John Sawyer (while still retaining control of the team), with the proviso that Mike and Pete Brown could buy back all of Sawyer’s shares for $25,000 apiece as early as March 1, 1993. The deal also called for the Bengals to funnel all of the team’s profits from 1984 to 1993 (a total of $66 million) to its shareholders—which meant Sawyer and Knowlton got most of that money. Ten years later, when the magic date rolled around, the Brown family purchased 329 of Sawyer’s 330 shares for just over $8 million—less than a quarter of their value at the time—and assumed majority ownership. In 2011, according to Forbes, the Browns paid $200 million in cash to Dutch Knowlton’s estate for his 30 percent stake, giving the family more than 500 of the 586 franchise shares.

Two decades after his father’s death, Mike Brown ensured that what happened to his father would never happen to the family again. It was the epitome of family loyalty, the quintessential example of a son’s willingness to fulfill his father’s utmost desire, even if it perpetuated the team’s failure on the field. Still, it paid off. In August, Forbes calculated the franchise value of the Cincinnati Bengals at $990 million.

Allotta flunkies were born in oHIo. Like Neil Armstrong, for example; Wapakoneta.

I'd give him three 15 packs of TP and four large hand sinitizers for the team today if he'd be interested!

Defensive linemen are freaks of nature. In high school, did a QB have to worry about many "big" guys being able to catch them? In the NFL, a 350 LB DL can run you down without much issue.

Back in college, a future NFL lineman lived in my complex. I played a lot of pickup b-ball games back then. I always wanted to be on Tootie's team....he could set a mean pick....and like Seahawk...I could pass :)