AJ Green officially closed the Green-Dalton Era on Friday and the AJ & Joe Era began when the Bengals’ best player signed the franchise tender to secure their statesman’s place in the new quarterback’s first training ground. from the Joe Burrow franchise.
Before NFL owners met on Friday to work out the details of the camp for a league dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, Green opted to sign a one-year deal for nearly $ 18 million that the Bengals expect to be a forerunner to a longer and more professional ending that cannot be negotiated until after the season.
So does Green. After discussions this week with Bengals head coach Zac Taylor, executive vice president Katie Blackburn and agent Ben Dogra said, “We are all in a good place.” They couldn’t beat Wednesday’s deadline for an extension, but Green believes they could have gotten something if there hadn’t been a pandemic.
“I have the same mindset. I want to play another four years and I hope to retire as Bengal,” said Green, before meeting his wife for a day in a lake near their home in Atlanta. “There were never harsh words. I understand that it has a commercial side. For me, I just want to play soccer.”
Green says the team has told him they also want him to withdraw Bengal “many times. I just have to stay healthy and put good football on the tape and go from there. Everything will work out. I’m happy to get it.” back to Zac’s system. “
No one thought that Green, the accomplished professional heading into his tenth season, would resist. Not only is he looking to jumpstart a career that was on the fast track to Canton before missing what amounts to the last 24 games with ankle and toe injuries, but he’s on his way to Burrow after playing with Andy. Dalton his entire career.
“I am very excited,” Green said. “I was lucky to have Andy all these years. I’ve seen Joe’s work. I’m happy to be healthy.”
Green, who turns 32 on the last day of the month, gives Burrow one of the game’s best receivers with a total of 602 catches and 63 touchdowns. Among the No. 1 general elections that have been quarterbacks since the joint draft in 1967, only Kyler Murray last season had a more prolific wide receiver than Green at Larry Fitzgerald.
