Matt Hasselbeck

position specific if you are adding just top tier blue chip talent.

And that's what you have the opportunity to do when you pick at the top 10.

Put yourself through some hardships, and you will come out on the other side a happier, more fulfilled, healthier person.

Yeah, no doubt.

It's great for both teams.

Win-win trades are always fun.

They don't always happen that way.

But when a new sheriff comes into town, when there's a new head coach, sometimes you don't feel the urgency to win right away.

You feel the need to, you know, the opportunity to buy, you know, draft your own guys, build your own team, people that came in with you at the same time.

And, you know, if you're the Bengals, you've got a team that's spent a lot of money on offense.

You've got a window with a great quarterback who's probably a little bit impatient, and you have a reputation of

not going out and spending money on defense and doing this kind of thing.

So it's good for the Bengals in that regard as well.

Well, you know, it's interesting that you're doing that because you're kind of just showing the numbers and you're showing the quarterback.

But I'll just tell you this, that even though the phrase was run the damn ball when he was in Tennessee with Derek Henry, Mike Vrabel was the head coach.

And aside from what his contract was, what his bank statement was, A.J.

Brown was the happiest that he ever was when he was the wide receiver with Mike Vrabel as the head coach.

And so I think that's what this is about.

This is about him being happy.

You know, the dollar signs are there.