The opening of the Cincinnati Bengals’ 50th training camp on July 27 will mark an occasion that is happening for just the second time in a decade – head coach Marvin Lewis coaching out his contract.
Team president and owner Mike Brown and Lewis did not come to an agreement on what had seemed like an annual rite of spring with a one-year extension this offseason, so Lewis enters his 15th campaign as the Bengals’ head coach with no security beyond.
The last time he faced such a season was in 2010, when the club went 4-12 and ended with Carson Palmer threatening retirement, an awkward press conference for the ages announcing that Lewis was coming back – and then ultimately the “rebooting” of the organization with the drafting of A.