Bengals To Be On Hard Knocks

Joe Reedy of the Cincinnati Equirer reports (via TSB) that the Bengals might be the next NFL franchise featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks. We recently were told (and of course forgot to post) that the Bengals are and will be the subjects of the 2009 season of the show. Many teams want no part of the endeavor, due to concerns that their opponents would study every second of the coverage in the hopes of gaining an advantage. Those fears might be unfounded. Still, “might” won’t change the views of ultra-secretive football minds like Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick, and Scott Pioli. Let’s say the chances of yielding a competitive advantage are only one percent if a team participates in the series. If they don’t, the chances of that happening are zero.