Will the Cincinnati Bengals ever learn? Every team has taken a chance on a player with questionable character and lost. However, if you add up every other NFL teams miscues in this department, the Bengals can probably beat that number single handedly. They never seem to learn from the ridiculous multitude of ill advised player acquisitions.
The Bears drafted Cedric Benson #4 overall in 2005. He went on to put up approximately 1500 yards and 10 TD's. Not bad for a feature back. Unfortunately those weren't his totals for one season, it was for 3 seasons. He started 12 total games in 3 years and was dumped with good reason. he had a horrible attitude... bad character... and a poor work ethic. He had multiple alcohol related arrests, and all of this had the power that be drooling in Cincinnati.
They immediately identified him as their kind of guy. Even though he had a lackluster 2008 campaign, he made a big impact in 2009 and finally started to show that he did have what it takes to make it in the NFL. Some guys take time to develop, and some have to be on the very edge of the abyss to straighten up.
After all of his problems and the long journey back, he was arrested for getting in a fight at a bar. He will surely be suspended and the Bengals are heading back to the old drawing board a few weeks before training camp. Benson was suppose to be the centerpiece of their offense and again they have hitched their horse to broken carriage. and, for the record, there is no question that Benson is broken.
I can't understand how guys like this never grow up. I don't blame him for his early trials and tribulations. If anyone thinks it is easy to adjust to becoming a millionaire over night and everything else that comes with being the #4 overall pick in the NFL draft, they are dead wrong. But, he is a veteran and a fully grown man... this latest stupid move is unacceptable. I have no idea how Carson Palmer bites his tongue.
At one time he was an elite QB, but because of a perennially poor O-line he has taken way too much punishment. He is just a shell of his former self. On a team that lets TJ Houshmanzadeh walk, and re-signs Chris Henry (may he R.I.P.) Palmer is a lone wolf. He has done everything he can to be a leader, but at the end of the day he is in career prison.
All of this is just more good news for the Ravens. The Steelers seem cursed and continue to lose players before the season even starts, the Bengals are lost, and the Browns... well, they may very well be the worst team in football. Pretty sure Baltimore dominates all 3 of them in 2010.
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