02-20-2022, 06:17 PM
(02-20-2022, 06:04 PM)ElkValleyBengal Wrote: I was being a bit facetious, but I just fail to see why this is such a big deal to some. It's like trying to keep up with the Joneses through your favorite team. I think that goofy ex punter with the podcast is taken a bit too seriously by some.
This has been a hot topic on the boards dating back to our bengals.com days,
WhoDeyRevolution, CincyJungle etc were talking about it when Pat McAfee was in high school.
Marvin Lewis talked to Mike about it several times, and it was reportedly a bone of contention with Marv's return in 2011.
If it wasn't important, teams wouldn't be spending hundreds of millions on these facilities. Billionaires aren't really into blowing hundreds of millions on frivolous things.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
