I'm guessing the Bengals don't carry the Glacier Freeze flavor of G2...
PFT recently posted a story about former Bengals CB Jonathan Joseph addressing the differences found between the Bengals and Houston Texans during an interview with HeraldOnline.com.
What I find interesting is that even though the question was centered around the Houston organization - Jospeh immediately opened with the night and day differences between franchises:
Q: What kind of organization is Houston?
The first thing about Houston is it’s an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston’s owner has other business interests and he controls the money. Numerous things that go on such as the way Houston interacts with my family; we’re treated in a first-class way. They helped us when my wife lost our baby daughter in a miscarriage. But they help with anything you ask of them because they are a very caring organization with positive attitudes about its players. In Cincy, we’re told how much Gatorade we could take home. In Houston we get what we request. You get soap and deodorant at your request. You don’t have a roommate on road trips.
Just add this to the pile of cheap things the Bengals do: shared jock straps, pay for pep rallies, no scouts, coach airline tickets, no practice bubble, calling a radio station for draft list....
And the beat goes on. No big name free agent signings happen in Cincy because of stories like this. What really troubles me are the stories that aren't told. Players talk. Cincy is the laughing stock of the league.
Posted by: Chris | July 18, 2012 at 03:29 PM
shared jock straps
calling a radio station for draft list
LOL
Posted by: Hofbraunow | July 20, 2012 at 09:33 PM
" we’re treated in a first-class way "
This goes back even before Mike Brown. Look at what Bill Walsh had to say about Paul Brown:
“Paul could be downright dishonest or whatever it would take, He’d be a great guy if it was convenient. If it wasn’t, he’d be himself. I had a lot of ambition. I wanted to be a head coach before I died. And he was holding me back because it was a perfect setup for him. It was as unsettling as hell because he had control of my life.”
“The truth is I wasn’t his world. I was like a guy from another planet that dropped in. That was about the time of the Vietnam War, and my hair might have been a little longer than his. And I had these boots you zipped up that my wife got me for Christmas, and he saw them one day and he had a fit, he was so upset. So he was afraid that this kook would be his replacement.”
Brown named Bill Johnson Bengals’ head coach after he stepped down. This is Walsh on getting passed over for Johnson: “If you want to win a goddamn championship, you better have the brains. You can’t win it with a dull guy as head coach, and the smart guy as the assistant. That’s why we didn’t win an AFC championship when Paul was the head coach, because it had to go through Paul to be done. And now it had to go through Bill.”
Posted by: #DoNotOccupyPaulBrownStadium | July 24, 2012 at 05:51 PM
And for other examples look how the Bengals treated their all-time best cornerback, Lemar Parrish.
"Paul never showed any affection for the guys," he added. "I don't care how good you are or how good you play, a guy likes to hear something from the coach."
"No cornerback in the league is better than I am, but a lot are getting paid better than I am."
"If they can't meet my salary standards, I got to move. I can't spend glory."
Parrish went on to two more Pro Bowl appearances after Paul Brown traded him to the Redskins for a pick that turned out the be the very disappointing Charles Alexander.
There are plenty of other examples, where the Bengals earned a rep for not treating their employees well. Of course that would be easier for fans to swallow if guys are pushed aside and replaced with even better players, but to do that you've got to have better scouting than the Bengals have had. They pushed Boomer out for Klingler? Or was it some other stiff?
Posted by: #DoNotOccupyPaulBrownStadium | July 24, 2012 at 05:58 PM
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