Bengals protect selves on coaching front
Cincinnati Bengals01/20/2007 8:01 AM The Dayton Daily News reports the Bengals don't want to hold back any of their assistant coaches from pursuing promotions elsewhere â unless, of course, the prospective new club is a division rival. That's why Cincinnati refused the Cleveland Browns permission to interview quarterbacks coach Ken Zampese for the Browns' offensive coordinator post. Zampese was allowed to interview with the Carolina Panthers for their coordinator's job, but there's no way Bengals president Mike Brown and HC Marvin Lewis will let Zampese out of his contract â which runs through the 2007 season â to go to Cleveland. The no-division-foe edict makes sense. Read more