AJ McCarron’s Cockiness Could Be Just What the Bengals Need to Break Through

January 8, 2016   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

It was January 6, 1991. ... That was the last time the Bengals won a playoff game. January...6...1991.
It's the longest such drought in the history of the NFL, and the Bengals are asking a man named AJ McCarron to end it.
Who is AJ McCarron? His cockiness has been chronicled, but in speaking with scouts and team executives about McCarron this week, all of whom followed him closely during the draft process, it sounds like he was cockier than generally known. These officials spoke highly of McCarron but also said his arrogance was the reason he fell in the draft.
But interestingly, each of the three personnel men interviewed said they always believed that if McCarron went to the right system, with the right coach, he'd be successful in the NFL.
"It's not shocking he's prospering now," one scout who followed McCarron's college career and interviewed him during the draft process said. "Marvin [Lewis] is good handling players, and that team has some good veteran lea...

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