This is the first site I look at every morning for my Bengals fix, great job man, keep it up.

…for totally lying, man. :) Glad to see you’re sticking around.

Earlier you said Marvin Lewis lied to us about Henry. And that totally sucked. Now you lied to us about quiting this site. Do two wrongs make a right?

In this case yes, yes they do. Glad you’re sticking around!

WHO DEY

I’m not trying to defend or justify Henry’s personal conduct as a Bengal, but if you go back and look at the list of incidents, they pale in comparison to Pacman Jones. In fact, Henry has been the victim of at least three (possibly four if you count the specious assault of a valet attendant in No. KY) false accusations. Moreover, the State of Kentucky wrongly released to the media that he’d failed a drug test when he actually had not. In actuality, he’s had:

— one drug related arrest (for weed),
— one gun related arrest (I believe for brandishing the weapon in public)
— one drunk driving arrest (.012 over the limit)
— one “providing alcohol to minors arrest” (In a hotel room in 2006 when he was 23)

Utterly stupid conduct. Inexcusable in every sense, but are these the crimes of a dangerous thug or somebody that has no common sense? Think about it.

Weed? Really, who hasn’t? I won’t even dignify this with a defense.

Brandishing a gun in public? The toughest one for me to understand, but there are PLENTY of NRA gun nuts that live in rural Ohio that carry weapons, brandish them like idiots, and get away with it. Tank Johnson was MUCH worse than this.

Drunk Driving? Stupid – probably the most serious of the crimes, in my opinion. But there are plenty of good people who made the bad decision to get in a car after having too much. The police could pull over 50 people higher than .012 over the limit after a game at Paul Brown Stadium. Speaking of which, why is Leonard Little still in the league? That guy actually killed somebody driving drunk and then went back and did it again!!!!

Giving Alcohol to a Minor? If you’ve been to college, you’ve commited this crime. True, he was being very sketchy by giving drinks to an underage girl in a hotel, but there are PLENTY of regular folks that could be charged with the same crime.

My only point here is that Henry is not this evil person the media makes him out to be. I think he’s an idiot – and a high risk/high reward kind of personality for the Bengals. I don’t know how he’ll turn out this year. But I disagree with the repeated argument that he’s the worst of the worst. Michael Irvin, Nate Newton, Mark Tuinei, and many other member of the 1990s Cowboys belie that assertion.

Who Dey!

As I understand it, Henry won’t be playing or practicing for the first five weeks, leaving him, instead, to his favorite leisure activity: getting arrested!

Marvin is right: There are responsibilities attached to the privilege of playing in the National Football League. Being arrested five times goes far beyond what any owner, head coach, position coach, strength coach, equipment manager…whomever…ought to have to put up with.

TZ can come up with whatever moral relativist arguments he wants (Oh, but there are worse drugs than weed…Oh, but those NRA folks are far nuttier…Oh, but he wasn’t that drunk…and besides, this other guy was far stupider…but everybody does it…etc. etc.), but at the end of the day, I don’t want anybody on my team who’s STUPID enough to get arrested FIVE STINKIN’ TIMES IN THREE YEARS, and I’m sure Marvin Lewis doesn’t, either!

Imagine for a second that you’re the projected 53rd player on the roster. Now imagine having to go home and tell your girlfriend…your wife…your mother…your two pet turtles Cuff and Link…whomever, that, “I lost my job to a felon, but he sure can ball!” Unless you’re Carl-Johan Bjork, in which case you’d say, “Jag förlorade mitt jobb till en felon, men han säker kan boll!” But in any language, really…does that make you feel any better? It wouldn’t have that effect on me, personally…maybe it’s just me.

I don’t know if this adds anything from the Karma Department, but I just finished a fantasy draft in a league where I had the last pick in the entire draft (12 owners X 20 players each = Pick #240) and I picked the One-Man Crime Wave just so he’d be “Mr. Irrelevant.”

Other baseball players have done far worse than Pete Rose, but I still think he got what he deserved. Other basketball players have done far worse than Roy Tarpley, but I still think he got what he deserved. Other hockey players…well, I don’t really like hockey anyway and don’t care to Google “banned hockey players,” but you get the point: Don’t try to explain away five arrests by bringing up the ‘90s Cowboys. The only thing that really proves is the true long-term ramifications of the salary cap, as far as I’m concerned.

Is that Marvin Lewis clearly didn’t want Henry back, and Mike Brown negated that. Did Lewis lose the locker room after that, after working hard this off-season to gain some measure of respectability from his players?