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Is eight enough for Bengals?

Kevin Hench / FOXSports.com
Posted: 4 hours ago

Ocho Cinco is Chad Johnson.

Ocho is the number of Johnson's teammates who have been arrested this year. Think about that. Eight is over 15 percent of a 53-man roster. (It's worth noting that despite all the complaints about his end zone histrionics and non-stop mouth, Johnson is a solid citizen, particularly when compared to the miscreants peopling his locker room.)
Blundering Bengals

O'Neal charged with DWI

Hench: Is eight enough?

Have 15 percent of your coworkers been arrested this year? Not even the United States congress, despite the best efforts of Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, William "the Cooler" Jefferson, Mark Foley, et al., can claim such a rate.

What is in the water in Cincinnati? Vodka apparently.

With Deltha O'Neal's arrest for drunk driving Friday night, the Bengals organization has broken its own single-season record for stupidity and selfishness.

It boggles the mind. One wonders, do the fines for drunk driving go down if you get a group rate? Does Marvin Lewis have a dedicated phone for these late-night calls ? the DUI line? Is .10 the average blood alcohol content of the Bengals at any given moment, or is it the team's average IQ?

To be fair, not every member of the Gang of Eight was pinched for driving under the influence. Guard Eric Steinbach, for example, was arrested for boating under the influence in August.

Fifth-round pick A.J. Nicholson (burglary), rookie defensive end Frostee Rucker (spousal battery, vandalism) and defensive tackle Matthias Askew (resisting arrest) were all collared for non-DUI offenses.

One might assume that rookie receiver Reggie McNeal (resisting arrest, drug possession) was saved a DUI charge last week when he got into it with police outside a Houston nightclub after being denied admittance and prevented from bellying up to the bar.

Even recidivist extraordinaire Chris Henry managed to avoid drunk driving charges on his first two arrests this past year (carrying a concealed firearm, possession of marijuana), but he finally got his DUI ? actually called an OVI (operating a vehicle under the influence) in Ohio ? in June.

Henry and McNeal were both in an SUV driven by linebacker Odell Thurman in September when Thurman blew a .18, more than twice Ohio's legal limit (.08). One shudders to think how much booze it takes to get a 235-pound middle linebacker that intoxicated. What makes Thurman's arrest extra special is that it came while he was serving a four-game suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.


Deltha O'Neal is the fourth Bengal in the last six months to be charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. (Andy Lyons / Getty Images)

O'Neal's arrest Friday night brings to four the number of Bengals who have been charged with operating vehicles while intoxicated in the last six months.

Other than the Rams ? whose Leonard Little killed a woman while drunk driving in 1998 ? no team in football should be as sensitive to the dangers of drinking and driving as the Bengals. Or maybe they didn't see that story on Inside the NFL that explained how it is their leader Carson Palmer has been able to throw for 3,102 yards and 22 touchdowns this season despite having his knee exploded in last year's playoffs.

Julie De Rossi was killed by a drunk driver on a Houston freeway in March 2004. She was an organ donor who has since helped more than 50 people, including Palmer, whose surgically reconstructed knee is held together by De Rossi's Achilles tendon.

Compare De Rossi's selflessness in death with the selfishness with which these Bengals are going through life.

Marvin Lewis will no doubt come out with another forceful repudiation of his team's criminal behavior. He may trot out the old "embarrassing yourself, embarrassing the organization and embarrassing the league" trifecta. He will certainly condemn this latest lapse in judgment. But perhaps it is time to question the judgment of Lewis himself. With Mike Tice losing his job in Minnesota and Larry Coker getting canned at Miami in part because it was perceived that they had lost control of their teams and embarrassed their bosses, one has to ask, can a coach who has had eight players arrested in the last 12 months be considered to be in control?

There is only one question now for Marvin Lewis and the Cincinnati organization:

Is ocho enough?

i think about cinco more lol

At some point...doesn't someone stand up in a meeting and say something?

Like "Who's buying the next round" <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Who knows, those idiots may do something stupid with the bottles!