http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060608/COL03/606080322/1066Ethics in the NFL - Lewis in the hot seat Bob Knight, arguably the world's best basketball coach and inarguably its most caustic, once said to me, paraphrasing here, "It's not what you stand for that defines you. It's what you won't stand for."
It's a good quote around here now, as the Bengals wrestle with players whose skewed personal lives have become public. What won't the Bengals stand for? Where's the line for Marvin Lewis?
To the Bengals coach, there are two types of character: There is standard- issue character, defined by Webster's as "an individual's moral constitution." And there is football character, earned by competitiveness, respecting coaches and being a good teammate.
Lewis is familiar with the former. He's concerned with the latter....
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060608/SPT02/606080320/1066Troubled duo draws Lewis' ire Bengal coach says neither player has yet made team for '06 seasonBY MARK CURNUTTE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The behavior of Chris Henry and A.J. Nicholson has embarrassed the Bengals and their coaches and is due - in part - to poor choices in personal associations, coach Marvin Lewis said Wednesday.
Lewis, not happy with the wide receiver's and linebacker's alleged criminal behavior and arrests last weekend, addressed the issue for the first time publicly.
Henry was arrested for the third time in the past seven months early Saturday morning for driving under the influence of alcohol in Union Township, Clermont County. Nicholson surrendered to police in Tallahassee, Fla., and was arrested Saturday and charged with burglary, grand theft and vandalism....