Joey Harrington

He wants to have fun again.

And then somebody asked him about his birthday presents.

And he got onto this Pokemon rabbit hole.

And that was the only time he perked up.

Like he was perfectly happy once they started talking about Pokemon.

So he's capable of being happy.

He's just not happy with football right now.

And my, my working theory, maybe it's a hypothesis.

I think what he's trying to do is make the Bengals decide to trade him so that he doesn't have to say, I want to be traded and get them to recognize he's not happy.

He's not performing at the level that they want.

And we can sell high.

We can trade him now.

And then he gets what he wants without having to ask for it.

So I think he's trying to do the Jedi mind trick to get them to trade him without him having to ask to be traded.

Well, and that fits in with the theory.

He doesn't want to say, I want out.

And the better scenario for him is for the Bengals to decide on their own that they want to move him.

Look, this all goes back to when he was in the draft.

From my book, Playmakers, that was a look at the past 20 years at the NFL, one of the things we looked into is the fact that players coming into the draft don't...

don't often enough make a power play.