Lewis’ contract status hints at possible tension at the top.
Marvin Lewis has the team’s beat reporters up in arms over some elusive comments he made to them regarding his current contract status. Lewis is currently working on the last year of his current deal, a rarity in the NFL. Lame duck coaches are usually uncomfortable [...]
In our newest feature here at Bengals Gab, we’ve put together a crack team of decoding experts and professional linguists and armed them with decryption software, a magic 8-ball, an antique WWII enigma machine, and a Little Orphan Annie secret decoder ring. Their objective: to translate Coach Marvin Lewis’ vague and nebulous press conference answers [...]
It’s been an interesting day trolling for Bengals news. Here are some highlights:
Jason Cole over at Yahoo! quotes team insiders reporting that WR Matt Jones and DB Pacman Jones tanked their workouts with the team last week. One called Matt a “Slow-twitch” athlete, and “the worst workout” he’d ever seen. Additionally, Pacman didn’t endear himself [...]
Joe Reedy of Cincinnati.com reports that Pro Football Weekly has named Marvin Lewis head coach of the year, and Mike Zimmer assistant of the year. Quan Cosby was named the punt returner on their all-rookie team as well.
Congrats all!
The Associated Press announced today that Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis has won their Coach of the Year honors for 2009.
Lewis led the Bengals to a 10-6 record in 2009 after a 4-11-1 finish the previous year. In addition, the Bengals swept their division for the first time in franchise history, defeating Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and [...]
Marvin Lewis held his embarrassingly-to-soon end of season press conference today and answered various softball questions while evaded the good ones (as usual). Unfortunately this left precious little to discern about the immediate future and possible changes, especially those the fan base is clamoring for.
Specifically, fans were interested in hearing two important statements regarding the coaching [...]
It was downright ugly Sunday night in the final regular season game of 2009 as the Jets blanked the Bengals 37-0 in front of a raucous sold out crowd. Even old Bengal Chris Collinsworth, who as NBC analyst is required to be unbiased, could not contain his disdain at the effort put out by the [...]
Coach Marvin Lewis scoffed the notion that his playoff-certain team might roll over in Sunday’s season finale against the Jets. “Laydown? Child please!!” Lewis told Yahoo Sports in a text message. Steelers LB LaMarr Woodley said he expected the Bengals and Patriots, with their playoff spots clinched, might give less-than-100% effort this weekend. But Lewis [...]
Head coach Marvin Lewis said he wants more consistency from WR Chris Henry, particularly better concentration, despite Henry’s seven-catch performance in the preseason opener. “I let him play a little bit longer tonight just to get (the drops) out of him. He’s had some drops in practice. If he’s going to help us at all, [...]
ESPN’s James Walker took in Bengals practice today, and reported the following about an ill Carson Palmer:
Despite expectations earlier in the day, Bengals starting quarterback Carson Palmer did not participate in the second practice session Saturday. Palmer felt ill, according to head coach Marvin Lewis. When asked if Palmer would practice Sunday, Lewis said “We’ll [...]
