{"id":18394,"date":"2025-03-23T12:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=18394"},"modified":"2025-03-23T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:18:12","slug":"breaking-the-bengals-are-copying-the-blueprint-of-a-past-super-bowl-champion-and-its-not-the-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=18394","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: The Bengals are copying the blueprint of a past Super Bowl champion (and it\u2019s not the Eagles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengals are paying to keep their offense together, emulating a previous Super Bowl winner with an elite quarterback getting his first Super Bowl win.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/QDE_wqule5SgFb-gSceNCALc3vI=\/0x0:4041x2932\/1200x800\/filters:focal(1474x874:2120x1520)\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/73979263\/2185488089.0.jpg\" alt=\"Cincinnati Bengals v Los Angeles Chargers\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"funHc6\">The Cincinnati Bengals have gotten a lot of flack for paying Joe Burrow, Ja\u2019Marr Chase, and Tee Higgins so much money while the defense is getting little attention.<\/p>\n<p id=\"v6gXXB\">However, there have been some teams in the past that have paid top-of-the-line deals to quarterback and their top two wide receivers. An example many people bring up is the recent Super Bowl champs in the Philadelphia Eagles with Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, and Devonta Smith.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3jVU1D\">However, in the latest episode of the Move the Sticks podcast, it was pointed out that the Bengals\u2019 current strategy mirrored that of the 2006 Indianapolis Colts, who would go on to win a Super Bowl that year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"huqBxo\">While the percentages were lower for the Colts in a very different NFL landscape, the concept was very similar. The Colts had an opportunity to keep superstar quarterback Peyton Manning happy by keeping his two favorite weapons, Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne (you could even argue that Mike Gesicki is the Bengals\u2019 version of Dallas Clark at tight end).<\/p>\n<p id=\"IiIO3c\">The 2006 Super Bowl that the Colts would go on to win was Manning\u2019s first, with 2006 being his ninth season in the league. The Bengals have to hope that it doesn\u2019t take until Burrow\u2019s ninth season for him to get his Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3GEOpq\">The Colts also had two pass rushers locked up in Robert Mathis and Dwight Freeney. The Bengals are working on locking up Trey Hendrickson to continue being their version of Freeney, but they must find another player to get after the quarterback and be their Mathis in this year\u2019s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengals are paying to keep their offense together, emulating a previous Super Bowl winner with an elite quarterback getting his first Super Bowl win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: The Bengals are copying the blueprint of a past Super Bowl champion (and it\u2019s not the Eagles) - 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