Thurman's release comments

Any other Bengal fan upset when the story about Odell is posted and see all of the CBS users post messages about "its about time they start cleaning up their mess" and "one down about 15 more to go"  etc.   These posters just come from no where who obviously haven't been paying attention to football at all in the last 4 months-2 years. 

I know we still have Deltha O'Neal, Ahmad Brooks (wasn't his legal troubles in college?), the 5th round draft pick (also legal troubles from college days obviously), the Rookie free agent Purify from Nebraska(same legal issues from college)---highly doubt he'll make the squad to begin with....but who else do we have left on our roster who was arrested while a Cincy Bengal?

I love the real fan---like the huberh3--who see's the Bengals have cleaned house and multiple other teams are getting away with even more legal issues without the publicity.

We took crap for 2  years for being "thugs" and "convicts" and "boozers" and "wife beaters" and--whatever you wanna call a guy who gives two underage girls alcohol in your hotel room...I say typical 22 year old guy but thats just me.  We've moved on as a team so the Media and the general population needs to get over it

I agree that the media should get over it too.

I don't think it will happen though. Look at last month when CBS sports actually wrote a small article when Chris Henry was pulled over for driving with an expired tag!

Was that actually some worth writing about? NO, but if a Bengals player even farts in the wrong direction then someone, somewhere is going to write about it.

The combination between lazy journalists and the Bengals being an easy target tells me that it will probably happen again.

This is a simple problem to fix.  Win.  Not to be rude but the only reason people still talk about the issues in Cincinnati is the losing.  

There is kind of like a quota the national sports programs feel they have to hit on each team to stay nonbiased.  So feel they have to "come up with a reason for the losing".

When the Bengals are winning ocho cinco is "playful" and helping them win, when they are losing he is a "distraction" and the a reason they are losing.

The truth is there are great players on the worst NFL teams.  If Balt. coach doesn't call a time out they beat the Pats.  A bounce/call/inch one way or another and games swing.  No one talks about the "locker room cancer" on winning teams.  they talk about overcoming adversity.