NFL Suspends Bengals Defensive End Antwan Odom Four Games

I’m still waiting to see if Odom changes his tune a bit after this but even so, this is essentially preventing him from getting on the field until healthy anyway so double win there. ALso gives us a chance to put in our other guys.

For once, can Dunlap surpass Rucker though? Or Geathers?

We need help with our pass rush; he is healthy and yet he still can’t see the field. I wasn’t a huge fan of that pick to start. Florida DE’s never pan out.

he hasn’t done anything anyways, maybe his backups can show us a little production. I mean this guy has really been the bust as far as free agents go

Besides Palmer, easily the most overpaid Bengal.

Odom has sucked this year. This is completely true. But how much of that is coming back from injury, how much of that is people concentrating on him more after what he did in Green Bay, and how much of that is side effects from the unintentional excessive weight loss that doubtless sapped much of his strength?

I think he’s already been punished enough by the side-effects of the diuretic. But maybe with four weeks off he can take the time to get healthy, rebuild some of the lost muscle, and treat this time off like a mini offseason. If he can come back healthy and strong again, maybe this will actually be a minor blessing in disguise.

Jungle John nailed it when he said Odom should heal and put on some more weight. Odom was doing really well last year up until the Texans game. I still think he can turn it
around. I think Dunlap, Johnson, Rucker, and Fanene can excel at end.

Some of you guys are saying Odom and Dunlap are a bust. Well, you should be talking about Robert Geathers. He has done nothing but been opportunistic with some fumble recoveries or easy sacks. He’s overpaid and under performing.

I love how we like to say some of these guys are a bust, but the truth is the coaching and management suck! No development. Look at players like Kevin Walter, Justin Smith, Takeo Spikes and even Madieu Williams. They leave the Bengals and make huge impacts on their respective teams. Kelly Washington was even catching TDs, e.g. the famous squirrel dance. It’s soo frustrating.

The question is: Are they going to continue to beat a dead horse and make this work, or are they going to cut him?

As far as Dunlap goes, we shouldn’t be surprised that our coaching staff isn’t innovative enough to figure out how to use our personnel. We always want to make them something they are not. God forbid we we ever draft a Percy Harvin type player; he would waste away on the sidelines.

Robert Geathers doesn’t scare anyone, and he is overpaid and under performing as well.

This is the oldest and stupidest excuse for testing positive on something. With today’s athletes and all the pills and lifting they take to make millions of dollars, under the full knowledge that taking something wrong could get them in trouble or not produce the results they want – how do they possibly mistake pills? Especially a weight-loss pill? I call shinanagans.

Odom’s a bust anyway, before this. Seven seasons in the NFL, and he’s started every game in a season one time including zero times with the Bengals. He’s clearly an injury prone guy who benefited from playing on a defensive line in Tenn with better studs than he is, in his one good full season. He turned that into a relatively big contract from Mike Brown who doesn’t know shit about football and probably mistook him for a backup tight end.

Remember when he supposedly put on 40 lbs muscle last off season?? Anyone else suspicious about that at the time??

How many players leave the Bengals and can’t even catch on with another NFL team. Other than Corey Dillon, I can’t think of another player in recent history who has went to another team and become anything special. Justin Smith, maybe, sort of? The UFL is littered with former Bengals. Are we becoming the Raiders of the mid-west? Or were we there first?