TJ would have had to be paid the average of the top 5 WRs in football, close to 10 million next year. Andrews also would have likely been in that 10 million range. By franchising Graham, they make a commitment of only about $2.5m. This leaves the Bengals more flexible to sign a greater need position in free agency, like d-line or a better o-lineman than Andrews (who I believe has a torn ACL or something).

 I don’t think TJ is worth a top 5 salary at his position. He is replaceable

but you have to remember that Mike Brown has no concept of what to do when he has money/roster space. There’s no expectation that he’ll use that money he’s going to save by franchising a kicker and not resigning TJ to do anything to help the team, which is why they’re the Bengals.

there isn’t enough UK talk

So… uhh… yeah, you’re welcome.

When something’s dead, like Latin, you can do whatever you want to it.

Benjamin served a full, single term in the middle of the Grover Cleveland presidency.

Shut yer yaps.

and being an ineffectual party machine tool

Well, there’s been a lot of false information given about banana peels lately, so once and for all, here are The Definitive Instructions for Smoking Banana Peels:
The Definitive Instructions for Smoking Banana Peels
Go to the grocery store and buy 10 pounds of bananas. (You used to need 200 pounds, but the potency has gone up 20x in the last 30 years.)
Remove the skins from the fruit. Save the fruit for later – if you mix it with orange juice and drink it while you’re smoking, it’ll make you trip real hard.
Dry the skins in the microwave. This won’t affect the potency, as bannadine is not microwave soluble.
The next two steps are a simple nonpolar-polar extraction of the bannadine. This is necessary to get rid of the fungicide they put on the skins, which is a type of strychnine. Grind up the dried peels really well, and soak them in methylene chloride (zippo lighter fluid makes a good substitute). Let soak for 2 days, and then rinse well with ether. Discard the liquid and save the mush.
Take the mush from step 4 and soak it in ethyl alcohol for another 2 days. Filter, and put the mush aside – you won’t be smoking it.
Evaporate the alcohol. The resultant crystals are 150% pure bannadine. Put these in your pipe, light up and enjoy! (Keep reading for the secret step 7!)
Bannadine is normally only active when smoked; that’s why eating bananas won’t do anything. However, that mush left over from step 5 is pretty tasty, and that’s how I discovered that bannadine is orally active if potentiated by dried peanut skins! Yes, its true. I looked up the structure, and it turns out bannadine is really closely related to DMT – it has carbon atoms and everything!
Hope this helps! And all of you who say bananas don’t work can just shut up.