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Updated: 5:50 p.m.
ORLANDO, Fla. - On Monday morning, Bengals president Mike Brown didn’t close the door on 
But, at the moment, there appear to be no talks between the Bengals and their most accurate kicker of all time and indications are he’ll begin making trips in the next few days with the Jets’ Jay Feely already lining up to visit Arizona. And Brown said there are going to have to be “adjustments” if Graham comes back. Unclear is if that means a reduction in the $2.4 million salary he earned last year as the Bengals' franchise free agent.
“I certainly have not closed any doors and when opportunities are given to me then we’ll make those decisions when the time comes,” said Graham, who could see himself returning to Cincinnati despite missing two short field goals in the playoff loss to the Jets.
“I wouldn’t want my career to be based on one game or a couple of kicks, but I understand the business and I understand you’re accountable for your performance and memories are very short. I still am lucky that I’m going to get a chance to prove myself and I’ll just have a little bit of an edge and a little bit more to prove now no matter where I may end up.”
Graham apparently had a tough time coping with the misses in the days after the missed kicks. And on Monday, the man who entered the playoffs with a nearly 87-percent success rate on 204 field-goal tries in seven seasons as a Bengal, was still shaking his head and talking to himself.
“You don’t know how good you are until you overcome your mistakes; that’s how it comes down for me,” Graham said. “Obviously I have to own up to what I did and looking at my teammates in the eye is one of the hardest things I ever had to do. I look forward to my opportunities to get on the field after this.”
Dunn had no comment on Graham’s plans.
"He thinks the world of the Bengals and the Brown family," Dunn said.
The Bengals don't feel that there is a kicker good enough to draft that could come in and kick right away like punter
"I don't know that there's that kind of ability. I don't think we want to put the football team into that situation," head coach Marvin Lewis said Monday. "I think Kevin Huber had a special ability. When you look back on it, Kevin measured up."
