David Montgomery’s press conferences have gotten a lot more interesting since his rookie summer, when he stood on the practice field in Bourbonnais giving six-word answers while shielding his face from the sun and looking anything but comfortable.
Heading into his third season, Montgomery walks into the room engaged but relaxed. Nothing about this makes him nervous anymore. It even seems fun, if that’s possible for an athlete in a press conference. He taps on each microphone to make sure they’re live and then lets it fly.
He’ll joke — or maybe he meant it — that quarterback Andy Dalton tolerates his nonstop questions because, “he ain’t told me to shut up yet,” or take the conversation down a bowling detour that eventually led him to challenge a reporter to a game.