Marvin Lewis. I agree that the league really has no business is allowing or disallowing players to use electronic media during the games. Though I don’t think that it’s a particularly great PR move on Ocho’s part, he ought to be able to do so as long as he Marvin Lewis gives him the go-ahead.

What Marvin says should go, but if Ocho wants to say something like, “We’re gonna finish the job now” at halftime, who, exactly was damaged? Further, how was the NFL’s brand damaged?

Typical move on the Rule With An Iron Fist League’s part.

Mike Brown, PLEASE cut this megalomaniac retard.

I’m in the crowd that if you want Chad on the field, you have to accept his crap off the field. It’s unrealistic to hope that he changes, takes a book called the strategy of the forward pass, or spend 12 hours on Sunday going through game film with Palmer. However, if he rebounds to have a season like the one’s before last year, then the Bengals will be better for it.

I also realize that there’s an “if” and so we don’t know. If he doesn’t prove to be worth having on the team by the first game of the year, everyone will turn on him quickly. He’s kind of like on super-secret probation with all of us.

isn’t there at some point a line drawn? Somewhere? Does Goodell allow Chad others like him to turn an NFL sideline into a social media side show circus? As a business owner myself, I don’t want my account managers Twittering on the job. They’re not paid to Twitter on the clock, and neither is Chad.

I don’t care either if he reads a book called strategy of the forward pass. I just don’t want him Twitter about the fact he’s not gonna read that book while he’s working. I suspect that anyone on this blog who either owns their own company, or has people reporting to them, doesn’t allow them to Twitter, watch YouTube vids or play on Facebook while their on the clock.

And who wants to read Chad’s pathetic boasting and garbage talk during a game on Twitter anyway? I just don’t get it.

I subscribe to the old school for the most part. The “It was a team effort” and “I couldn’t have done it by myself” media quotes. I admit, they are boring. So I don’t mind a change of pace off the field or during the offseason. Or even before or after the game I can tolerate it sometimes (example- the rip off ocho cinco on the back of chad’s jersey, even though it led to him changing his name). But as soon as the first kickoff comes down the field, there should be no or as few distractions as possible. Chad should be focused on what routes he should be running, communicating with Carson, what coverage the defense is in, maybe even throwing a block in there from time to time, and what adjustments (if Brat starts making them) they are making at halftime. He should NOT be thinking about what his next tweet is going to be.

Also, I can see this turning into negative comments VERY quickly. I can just see the “Carson is throwing to Coles over the middle to much”, or when they miss a pass “Carson read the wrong D, I was right”, “Stop giving the ball to Benson, I am wide open”, “Henry is stealing my TD’s”, “The defense is losing this game for us”. All that will do is create a larger rift between chad and the rest of the team.

I see the point about this being the next form of sideline reporting, but those reporters do have a barrier that they cannot cross, and the same rules should apply here- 1) the reporters are not allowed in the team area on the sidelines and 2) they are not allowed in the locker room at halftime.

I think we are worrying way too much about this. And shame on ESPN for making this a story. I know that it’s baseball season and you can’t exactly take fill up the time talking about C.C Sabathia’s fastball, but there has to be something better out there. UFC? Soccer? Women’s basketball? Anything but Twittering.

And for the record, I hate all things Twittering. It’s an invention that nobody under the age of 30 actually uses or cares about and the only reason why anybody knows about it is because some media idiots out there decided they could get more publicity if they appeared “hip” and started using these cool “new” social networking cites. If you want to stop hearing about Chad’s twittering craze like I do, then I beg you to just stop visiting his Twitter page!

well, I agree that the fighting Goodell thing wasn’t the right move.

Why should Chad be allowed to use Twitter during a game? My employer would not find it acceptable for me to use Twitter during my work hours. He is paid to play football not to Tweet.