CINCINNATI -- Adam Jones sounded like a man who has moved on, ready for his next challenge.
The free agent sounded that way Tuesday morning when he spoke on various television shows shot from ESPN's Bristol, Connecticut, headquarters, and also later in the day when he was reached for a phone interview. He regularly used the past tense when discussing the Cincinnati Bengals, and even described them using the pronoun "they" instead of "we," "us" or "our," words the team-first cornerback made regular parts of his vernacular the past six seasons in Cincinnati.
Based off tone alone, Jones sounded like a man convinced he was going to be signing elsewhere (Dallas, Cleveland, Miami, Baltimore or Minnesota, perhaps?