Stoolers tryihng to kill the Bengals with Kindness...

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Just reading the OP, I take it more as a condescending tone.

It's like the coaches from each team told the players in the locker room, "NO BULLETIN BOARD MATERIAL OR I'LL CUT YOU AFTER I FINE YOU!!!". 

These teams don't like each other and I expect ejections this Sunday.