The definition of due diligence? When you can get ripped for it and praised for it at the very same time.
So Monday was a due diligence day at Paul Brown Stadium. Usually the business of trying to make yourself get better in the NFL is a silent, dreary, anonymous hum of work behind the scenes. Setting up a tryout with a twice-released player. A phone call to an elusive agent. An e-mail to a friend of a friend. A tip on a text from a buddy in the league. The back page of a coach’s notebook.
But Monday was one of those days people noticed.