Mike Zimmer, the defensive coordinator who has an HBO vocabulary to go along with a Best of NFL Films résumé, is making his third appearance on the Emmy Award-winning Hard Knocks.
HBO Sports, NFL Films and the Cincinnati Bengals team up for an all-access look at what it takes to make it in the National Football League when HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP WITH THE CINCINNATI BENGALS debuts in August.
The Bengals are looking to jack up their success rate inside the 20 on both sides of the ball.
Cincinnati's NBC television affiliate, WLWT (Channel 5), will have local broadcast rights for all four Bengals prime-time games in 2013.
Maybe it was fitting the final Bengals practice before next month's training camp came on a Thursday morning where thunder and lightning slow-danced above Paul Brown Stadium.
Bengals players concluded their offseason program Thursday with the final practice of mandatory minicamp.
Observations from Thursday's third and final Bengals practice of mandatory minicamp.
The defense always looks good in shorts, especially a back-to-back-top-seven defense, and such was the case again in Wednesday's second workout of Bengals minicamp when Mike Zimmer's men batted down more leather than Armani.
For all but the most attentive Bengals fans, the name Brandon Ghee likely conjures up a hazy image.
Though Andy Dalton is only 26—an age at which some NFL quarterbacks are still in a learning mode—he's quick to agree with the suggestion that his NFL "youth" is behind him.