Praise from Whitlock?

[bengalboomer7]

Jason Whitlock took a ton of crap on here at the beginning of the season for dissing our beloved Bengals. Well, his latest column provides a little praise

9. Marvin Lewis gets my NFL coach of the year award over Tony Dungy.

It's probably unfair that Dungy basically would have to go 16-0 in order to win this award, but Dungy had half the puzzle solved when he arrived in Indianapolis. The Colts had a terrific offense before Dungy.

Marvin has built the Bengals from the ground floor. He ran off all the players who didn't want to be Bengals, including Corey Dillon and Takeo Spikes. Marvin expertly handled the grooming of quarterback Carson Palmer. Marvin embraced Chad Johnson's over-the-top personality. And somehow, Marvin has turned Deltha O'Neal and Tory James into a solid corner combination.

Most impressively, Marvin did it while working for the Browns, one of the cheapest families in professional sports.

Marvin Lewis has a chance to go where only one high-profile black coach has gone before. John Thompson was Georgetown basketball the way Tom Landry was the Dallas Cowboys, Vince Lombardi was the Packers, John Wooden was UCLA, Bobby Knight was Indiana, Red Auerbach was the Celtics, Don Shula was the Dolphins, Bill Belichick is the Patriots and Bill Simmons is the "Karate Kid."

Marvin Lewis could be all of that to the Cincinnati Bengals

I got goosebumps reading that

[bengalindian]

About time he gave 'em some praise. All of his articles always revolve around the Chiefs, it's sickening.

[Stripes]

Whitlock has been much more Bengal-friendly of late (possibly a reason for the decline in Whitlock threads here). He made an appearance on "The Sports Reporters" on Sunday talking about how he doubted the Patriots had the defense to get past any good quarterbacks, and he included Carson in that statement.

[Kazkal]

ted johnson (ex pats linebacker) was giving bengals mad props saying bengals offense tore them apart last year where no other team did he was also high about us being able to make it to the superbowl he ruled out pats this year and said colts could but diden't seem like the idea as much as the bengals

[Riagogogoindanati]

Like we keep sayin'..............THANK YOU BLACK JESUS!

[Stripes]

ted johnson (ex pats linebacker) was giving bengals mad props saying bengals offense tore them apart last year where no other team did he was also high about us being able to make it to the superbowl he ruled out pats this year and said colts could but diden't seem like the idea as much as the bengals

As a former Patriots defender, he is more likely than most to discredit and underestimate the Colts than other people might be, but it is still good to hear any player supporting the Bengals.

Nostra Chadmus has already made his prediction, so all of this speculation is uneccessary anyways.