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If John Thornton were hitting the market next week like he did at the turn of the century when he became one of the most important free-agent signings in Bengals history, he figures he d be getting on a Zoom call instead of an airplane.
For the first time in the history of the NFL, teams, players and their agents are dealing with a reduced salary cap that has everyone scrambling. Thornton, the former defensive tackle-turned agent, tells the Old School Scribe Podcast that the deals to watch won t be the blockbusters leaked on the first day of free agency but those that come next.
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In the latest edition of Old School Scribe Podcast, Ron Borges, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame senior committee, says the candidacies of Ken Riley and Ken Anderson continue to draw plenty of attention. Some of us on the committee feel very strongly we need to bring a Bengals player out of there, Borges says at about the 40-minute mark of a freewheeling conversation with the long-time NFL and boxing reporter.
Borges, who has dubbed the senior pool The Great Abyss, has long supported both men s bids for Canton. But he also knows, Nothing is for sure when you re in the senior pool.
In the latest edition of the Old School Scribe Podcast celebrating the 1981 AFC champion Bengals, Pro Football Hall of Famer Anthony Muñoz talks his passion, his drive, who he hopes joins him in Canton, and everyone from Dave Lapham to Joe Burrow to anoth
Bittersweet moment for Ross Browner after Super Bowl XVI.
Bengals right end Ross Browner, who played like a Super Bowl MVP that day in Detroit, ran up to the man that got the trophy after 49ers quarterback Joe Montana broke Bengaldom s heart the first time. I said, Joe, you ve come a long way and now you re a world champion, Browner recalls as Old School Scribe Podcast continues to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Bengals 1981 AFC title.
Browner and Montana, teammates at Notre Dame, were already used to big stages to decide it all. Browner recalls his senior year in South Bend when Rusty Lisch went down during the third game of the 1977 season and head coach Dan Devine mused out loud to his captains on the sidelines about who he should put in at quarterback. Browner, the Fighting Irish s defensive leader who started that season on a Sports Illustrated cover, says he didn t hesitate.
Ken Anderson: 1981 NFL MVP.
Ken Anderson, who along with Tom Brady is the best quarterback not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, doesn t want to expound on his credentials with the 2021 class set to be unveiled next week without him and with Peyton Manning the day before Brady plays in his 10th Super Bowl.
Instead, Anderson touts his teammate on the 1981 team celebrating the 40th anniversary of his MVP season and the Bengals first Super Bowl trip.
The late Ken Riley. I feel worse for Kenny Riley, Anderson says in the latest Old School Scribe Podcast. He s got the (fifth) most interceptions in NFL history. If you look at the bulk of his career, they weren t throwing the ball as much as they are now … I believe everyone ahead of him (on the all-time interceptions list) is in.