Bengals offensive coordinator Hue Jackson has made no bones this offseason about looking to extend his unit’s mean streak and has been looking to light some competitive fires along the way.
He decided to bring in a guest lecturer for the next two weeks to help deliver his point home when T.J. Houshmandzadeh, the always fiery self-made Pro Bowl wide receiver for the last-decade Bengals, signed up for one of the club’s four Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowships.
Houshmandzadeh, 37, insisting, of course, that he can still play, is taking a hiatus from helping his daughter’s 12-year-old nationally-ranked AAU softball team in Los Angeles and began working Monday when the Bengals opened their final week of voluntary practices.