One minor piece of annoying news relating to the Bengals as camp began is the absence of first round pick TE Jermaine Gresham. The team has been working with Gresham’s representation trying to secure an agreement for over a week with little success.
As a fan, we all know how these things end up. The player [...]
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed today what Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis had asserted all along: That halfback Cedric Benson would not face disciplinary action from the league stemming from the Austin bar incident.
Here’s the actual statement, courtesy of Bengals.com:
“Cedric Benson met last week (July 22) with Commissioner Goodell and members of his staff at [...]
Hobson over at the official team site has the transcript from Marvin Lewis’ press conference today. You can read the entire transcript here.
In the meantime, I thought I’d pass along the question & answer on everyone’s minds–that of Lewis’ thoughts on the signing of Terrell Owens. Here you go:
Q: Take us through the final decision [...]
The firestorm left in the wake of the T.O. signing continues, and NFL “insiders” and talking heads throughout the league continue to analyze, speculate, and just plain gossip.
The latest, courtesy of Newsday through PFT, is that head coach Marvin Lewis was not “entirely on board” with the addition of T.O.
“He’s got big concerns,” a source [...]
So much for being on time.
For whatever reason, new Bengal Terrell Owens missed his overnight flight and had to take a later one Thursday, delaying his debut during the first day of workouts at training camp.
The Bengals had planned on him arriving early in the day, taking his physical and signing his contract [...]
Details on second-rounder Carlos Dunlap’s contract, courtesy of the great reporters over at NationalFootballPost.com:
Cincinnati Bengals rookie second-round defensive end Carlos Dunlap’s four-year deal is worth almost $3.57 million and includes $1.779 million in guaranteed money, per league source.
Dunlap received a $1.228 million signing bonus.
His base salaries are the standard ones of $320,000, $405,000, $490,000 and $575,000
Well, fellow Bengal fans, there’s been quite a stir around the league since the Terrell Owens signing story broke. Reactions and opinions have not been in short supply.
While Chad Ochocinco has gushed openly about being Robin to T.O.’s Batman, the controversy and speculation revolves around the team’s other franchise receiver, Antonio Bryant.
Several NFL observers have [...]
The team announced via its Twitter feed that second-rounder Carlos Dunlap, a DE from the University of Florida has signed. More on the news from PFT can be found here.
Here’s the snip from Bengals.com
With second-round pick Carlos Dunlap signing his contract at about the time the Bengals convened their team meeting Wednesday, first-rounder Jermaine Gresham [...]
It’s been a busy day here in Bengal-land. In the span of a few hours they’ve signed third round WR Jordan Shipley, agreed to terms with the incomparable Terrell Owens, and now its being reported by NFP that they’ve also signed fourth-rounder Roderick Muckelroy.
Muckelroy, a linebacker from Texas, got a four-year 2.21 million deal. The [...]
