When we went out on the field, I don't think everybody felt like this guy had that guy's back. Now, going to war this time, we want to have it that everybody has everybody's back. Almost every team in the NFL pays its players to work out. So with about 200 days left in the decade, the Bengals officially entered the 1990s. Each player will do the camp a little bit differently.
Spikes plans to stay here for two weeks, then head back home for a week before returning.
Running back Corey Dillon, wide receiver Willie Jackson and linebacker Steve Foley were the three veteran players who didn't show Tuesday. Jackson and Foley are expected, and Dillon, who showed up for the weekend's mini-camp in good shape, cited responsibilities with his newborn daughter in Seattle. Bengals President Mike Brown said he was heartened with the re sponse. But in today's world, that's no longer the way it is. They don't do that stuff anyway, and maybe this is just us catching up with the Joneses.