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On Monday's 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn and LaVar Arrington debate whether it's too optimistic to think the Bengals will back to the Super Bowl in short order.
Brady Quinn: "I think what you get in the Rams winning the Super Bowl and now going in 2 of the last 4 years, is if your owner and GM come out and say they're cash strapped from the salary cap, they're lying to you. They're cheap. Kroennke spent $5B on SoFi. He paid in a settlement, over $700M to move from St. Louis to LA. He did all of that. He invested in paying these big cash signing bonuses to construct a roster that could fit within the salary cap. He did all of that to have another bite at the apple and it worked, and they won, and they're world champions. So if the Bengals don't make it back, yeah luck plays a part of it, but that's for every team, the difference is if they don't make it back, it's because the Bengals organization is cheap."
LaVar Arrington: "I think they have enough weapons where they should be fine. Salary cap issues is one thing but just coming back and knowing who they have and what Joe Burrow has been able to do, and I assume they're going to try improve that offensive front, they have the makings of a team that can be very competitive until they get out of these rookie contracts with some of these guys."
Brady Quinn: "That's not too far away though."