I'm going to keep playing well, I feel great about the organization and everybody in the

locker room and in the coaching staff and so, you know, it's iceing on the cake to

me, I'm just excited to be out here.

He's even more excited now, Joe Burrow got paid yesterday.

Five year, 275 million dollar contract extension by way of new money, the

Fugazi metric used by agents to value contracts.

It's worth 55 million per year.

He becomes the highest paid player in NFL history by two and a half million over

Justin Herbert.

He is 10 million per year ahead of Patrick Mahomes.

And I can't help but wonder how much longer that's going to be okay with Patrick Mahomes

to be that far behind when that many other teams can pay that many other quarterbacks

more than Mahomes.

At some point it becomes glaring for Patrick Mahomes and we'll see if and when the

Chiefs fix that.

But Peter, look, we knew it was going to happen.

We knew the Bengals have been planning for it.

They sold the naming rights to the stadium for crying out loud.

They knew it was time to find every couch cushion in the house for every last quarter

that they could pile together because this is the price that comes due if you're

going to have a great team.

You win the lottery in the draft and as I was saying yesterday the problem with winning

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