If the trend continues

Another step in the right direction. Get rid of the cancer and then the lockeroom can once again focus in winning a championship. 

Unlike the Pats, it is better to play the right way with the right attitude for the right reason; then to lie, cheat and steal to win at all costs and without class.

You can't teach class and you can't coach it; at this level you have it or you don't. Good on the Bengals for showing it; it doesn't matter if you are the best player in NFL history, if you spend half of your season suspended or in jail you won't be winning ball games.

Hmm..there has to be something going on here, since I don't get why they kept Odell through two years of suspension to cut him now. I don't mind the cleaning house, if anything the Bengals are one of the more "clean" teams (the bulk of the problem players are now long gone, and other teams have had plenty of issues since). Now they just have to deal with a certain receiver and they can look at moving forward.

As for Odell, its a shame, and I don't know what was so bad to cut him, but his "body of work" deserved it. That being said, I'm sure Jerry Jones will be calling his agent soon.

The thing that surprises me about this is that Marvin Lewis basically said he was not happy with Odell Thurman's attendance during the mini camps.

The guy just had his only living family member die and that was the reason he was not there.

Why the club would wait sooooo long to cut him is beyond me! I really think that they just used this as an excuse because he was not in football shape and they did not feel like working with him now that they have Keith Rivers.

I kind of feel sorry for Thurman but of course he was the reason why this situation was presented to him in the first place. The guy has all the tools to be a good LB and hopefully he will get another shot to play.

NO wonder Chad wants out...all of his buddies are leaving him.

I wonder if maybe Mr. Johnson was more mature and more of a role model for some of the young troubled rookies, the Bengals may not have had as much trouble.  Do you think a recieving core led by Jerry Rice would have had this much bad publicity???  I know one thing, at least the leader of the Recievers would not be the one with the most unfavorable headlines.

BBG - I was thinking the exact same thing when I read this story, but you beat me to the punch on the post. 

Thurman will find a new home. I hope he stays positive and doesn't head down the wrong path as a result of everythung going on in his life right now.