George Iloka got the hometown vibe from an owner of a downtown Cincinnati custom tailor shop Thursday morning just before his appointment to sign his $30 million contract. Vincent Rey got the vibe from the owner of the team as he signed his $11.5 million deal Thursday afternoon.
Such were the emotions at the end of a 24-hour spin cycle that spit out the richest deals in NFL free agency history when two of the Bengals’ more reliable defenders on one of the NFL’s most reliable defenses put aside the aside the messy dollar signs of free agency as they starched and pressed what it meant to stay in Cincinnati.