Cincinnati Bengals players got the message from new head coach Zac Taylor loud and clear: accountability above all else.
We saw some of this with Taylor running around and quizzing his players randomly about his unique definition of a Bengal.
A new writeup from ESPN’s Katherine Terrell reveals each positional group has a different way of handling player-based fines to stress accountability, too. Tight ends, for example, seem to have a strict fine process, whereas the wideout group led by A.J. Green doesn’t.
Linebackers have their own system too, as Preston Brown explained.
“If you do something wrong, you have to put it in the pot,” Brown said. “It definitely makes sure you’re on your P’s and Q’s no matter what’s going on. I don’t want to get fined anymore.”
The whole system sounds vague and fans won’t get to hear it all, as C.J. Uzomah explained: “It’s a $1,000 fine if you talk about the list of fines.”
Presumably, these guys got fined for letting chatter about this system slip out in the first place. In the bigger scheme of things, it sounds like simple offseason fun to keep everyone on the same page.
