CINCINNATI -- In less than three weeks, Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown will be turning 90 years old, but don't let his age fool you. Brown still has his hands firmly on the pulse of the organization. Although he rarely speaks to media, he always does at least one interview every year, and that came Monday during the team's local media day.

While the Dallas Cowboys' Jerry Jones showed his whole [expletive] over not wanting to pay his high-profile employees money that they've earned, the Cincinnati Bengals' Mike Brown was busy discussing two pertinent contract situations hanging over the ostensible Super Bowl contender like a wrinkled dress shirt with an iron mark conspicuously burned into one of the sleeves.

Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown says a disagreement over guaranteed money is what is keeping the team from signing 2025 first round pick Shemar Stewart.