2025 Cincinnati Bengals

tom 48 said:
Hubbard retires.

Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbard took to social media on Wednesday afternoon and announced his retirement from the NFL.
"In my heart, I know that I gave this game, this team, and this city everything that I had. That is why today, with great pride, I am announcing that I am moving on from my playing career in the NFL and entering the next chapter of my life.


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Bengals DE Sam Hubbard Announces Retirement at Age 29

Hubbard played seven NFL seasons, all with Cincinnati.
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good for him to be able to retire at the age of 29. More power to him and his family. I could see him having a presence with some media outlet (whether it is for the Bengals or a major network)

How many years do you have to be in the NFL to get a full pension with full family medical benefits?
 
D4fan said:
Listened to WLW on my way home today. That talk show host has the Bengals tightening the purse strings now that things are not playing out so well, and he figures they lose Higgins, Hendrickson and their top receiver.
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They will not be losing both Chase and Higgins. WLW just being the National Enquirer of AM radio.

CHase will get near $40M per year. If the Bengals let him go, the uproar from Burrow would be deafening.
 
WJ-OSU-STEELERS said:
The Brown family has a family compound in La Jolla, Ca. If San Diego could/would fund a new stadium, it would be the San Diego Bengals

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Bengals, Hamilton County resume lease negotiations amid "tumult" and "tension"

One day at a time, the expiration of the Bengals' lease at Paycor Stadium is getting closer and closer.
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Go ahead, leave. It might take a few years, but I’d rather the Bengals come back with an ownership group that isn’t full of wet brained nepo baby failures.
 
Omar said:
Go ahead, leave. It might take a few years, but I’d rather the Bengals come back with an ownership group that isn’t full of wet brained nepo baby failures.
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If the Bengals were to leave Cincinnati (hopefully they never do), what makes you think they would get another franchise? St Louis, San Antonio, London, Toronto, Berlin, Mexico City, heck Columbus is projected to double in size over the next 20 years. All these cities would be as good or a better option than Cincinnati.

If Cincinnati were to lose the Bengals, they are unlikely to ever get a NFL team again
 
WJ-OSU-STEELERS said:
If the Bengals were to leave Cincinnati (hopefully they never do), what makes you think they would get another franchise? St Louis, San Antonio, London, Toronto, Berlin, Mexico City, heck Columbus is projected to double in size over the next 20 years. All these cities would be as good or a better option than Cincinnati.

If Cincinnati were to lose the Bengals, they are unlikely to ever get a NFL team again
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Europe isn’t happening. Columbus will always be Ohio State first.
 
Omar said:
Europe isn’t happening. Columbus will always be Ohio State first.
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Europe could very well happen and when it does it will be 2 new franchises or 1 new & Jacksonville so the teams traveling to Europe can stay and play back to back games in Europe.

Mexico City & Toronto are possiblies as well.

I forgot San Diego. SD just needs a stadium. Great location for a Super Bowl as well.
 
WJ-OSU-STEELERS said:
Europe could very well happen and when it does it will be 2 new franchises or 1 new & Jacksonville so the teams traveling to Europe can stay and play back to back games in Europe.

Mexico City & Toronto are possiblies as well.

I forgot San Diego. SD just needs a stadium. Great location for a Super Bowl as well.
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Not going to happen. The time zone difference is too much. Mexico will never embrace real football. Toronto has the Bills.

But if the Bengals never return so be it. What’s the point if your ownership is too inept to ever win a SB?
 
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If they Bengals leave and never come back, we might see a small economic boom considering how much money the season ticket holders (saps) will save year after year. The Bengals are not the loveable losers that the Cubs have portrayed over 120 years of mostly hapless baseball. They are money driven, stingy and selfish. All they do is take and take some more from tax payers, the City and the fans.
 
Omar said:
Go ahead, leave. It might take a few years, but I’d rather the Bengals come back with an ownership group that isn’t full of wet brained nepo baby failures.
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Forgot to mentioned business illiterate. How do own an NFL franchise for nearly your entire adult life and you can’t find a way to be successful in another business to make you more money to afford the things necessarily for running an NFL franchise - like big guarantees for your star players.
 
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Orin Swift said:
Forgot to mentioned business illiterate. How do own an NFL franchise for nearly your entire adult life and you can’t find a way to be successful in another business to make you more money to afford the things necessarily for running an NFL franchise - like big guarantees for your star players
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Very good point. How do you inherit an NFL team and not have any major outside income? Even so Forbes lists Brown as one of the top 400 richest people in America yet he does not have the resources to pay big guarantees. Talk about being a grifter.
 
Estimated wealth of NFL owners :

31) Mike Brown, Cincinnati Bengals​

Mike Brown’s father, Paul Brown, was the original coach of the Cleveland Browns and the founder of the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968. Mike took control of the Bengals after his father passed away in August 1991.

Brown has spent most of his adult life working within the organization. He’s not currently listed on the Real-Time Billionaires List. However, in 2015, Forbes estimated that his net worth is $925 million.

Net worth: $925 million


Who Is the Richest NFL Owner?​

The Denver Broncos have been sold to the Walton-Penner ownership group. The group led by Walmart heir Rob Walton, Greg Penner, and Carrie Walton Penner, and including limited partners Mellody Hobson, Condoleezza Rice, and Lewis Hamilton, will be the Broncos’ first new owners in 38 years.

Walton is considered the richest owner in the NFL by net worth. According to Forbes, Walton’s net worth is $77.4 billion, which makes him more than twice as rich as any of the other NFL ownership groups.

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NFL’s Richest Owners Ranked From 32 to 1 (Updated 2025)

Who are the richest owners in the NFL, and how did they amass their fortunes? How do they stack up against each other in terms of net worth?
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Stirred not Shaken said:
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Bengals owner Mike Brown makes Forbes' richest people in America list

Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown and his family have been named among the richest people in the United States by Forbes.
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This article from Forbes lists Brown's net worth at 3.9 billion.

Edit: Pro Football Network article above used info from 2015.
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The challenge/problem for Mike Brien is the majority of that $3.9 billion is in the value of the Bengal franchise. Brown & the Bengals do not have the cash on hand to pay out these large 1st year guarantees.
 
WJ-OSU-STEELERS said:
The challenge/problem for Mike Brien is the majority of that $3.9 billion is in the value of the Bengal franchise. Brown & the Bengals do not have the cash on hand to pay out these large 1st year guarantees.
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Have no idea how much cash Mike Brien has on hand or that Mike Brown has. If he (family own 97%) sold 10% of his (their) stake that is 390 million could use that to pay the guarantees. But again, have no idea how much liquid money Mikey boy has.

Edit: My guess (and just my guess) is Mikey has more than enough to pay for these guarantees he chooses not to.
 
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Bengal WhoDey said:
How much profit do you think the Bengals make each year? I would guess 100 million. They have plenty of cash.
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Bengals are to receive 280 million just from NFL TV rights in 2025. This does include tix. sales, naming rights for the stadium, radio deal. Poor pauper Mike Brown has no cash. Unlike most owners Mikey inherited his father's stake in the team.
 
If the Bengals extend Chase and Hendrickson and keep Higgins in the franchise tag, they will have the following cap hits for 2026:

Burrow - $46.1 mil
Higgins - $26.1 mil
Chase - $25.0 mil estimate assuming he signs a 4 year $160 mil deal that is backload regarding cap hit (currently $21.8 mil cap hit)
Hendrickson - $25.0 mil estimate assuming he extends 3 years at $100 mil (currently he is a $17.6 mil cap hit)
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Total cap hit in 2026 fir these 4 guys = $122.2 mil or 43.77% of the $279.2 mil team cap.

The crazy thing is, with all of this spending the Bengals have yet to make the team better. No new player(s) were added.
 
Biggest f’in idiots and cheapskates own the only professional teams I care about. Going to encourage my first born to be a bandwagon for any teams outside this hellscape of a sports city.

“WeRe GoNnA mAkE cHaSe TeH hIgHeSt PaId NoN-qUaRtErBaCk.”

Good job morons. Thank god you have the irreplaceable internal policy that doesn’t allow you to negotiate extensions during the season, it definitely didn’t come back to bite you in the azs. And to top it off, dragging your feet with Trey and Higgins made both of them even more expensive. Get all this done last year and the total cost between the three of them is anywhere from $10-$15m less. That’s enough for 1 impact free agent or 2-3 average starters/highly used backups. But no, let’s shoot ourselves in the foot 5 times instead.
 
Orin Swift said:
Biggest f’in idiots and cheapskates own the only professional teams I care about. Going to encourage my first born to be a bandwagon for any teams outside this hellscape of a sports city.

“WeRe GoNnA mAkE cHaSe TeH hIgHeSt PaId NoN-qUaRtErBaCk.”

Good job morons. Thank god you have the irreplaceable internal policy that doesn’t allow you to negotiate extensions during the season, it definitely didn’t come back to bite you in the azs. And to top it off, dragging your feet with Trey and Higgins made both of them even more expensive. Get all this done last year and the total cost between the three of them is anywhere from $10-$15m less. That’s enough for 1 impact free agent or 2-3 average starters/highly used backups. But no, let’s shoot ourselves in the foot 5 times instead.
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Please stop being so damn subtle and just say what you're thinking. :banana:
 
Bengals bringing in 2 guys on 2 year deals:
- RB Semaj Perine returns on a 2yr, $3.8m deal
- DT TJ Slaton from GB (reunites with new DL coach Montgomery) on a 2 year, $15.5m deal. Run stopper
 
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