On Tuesday, Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis won’t have to beat Giants head coach Tom “If You’re On Time You’re Late,” Coughlin to the Paul Brown Stadium practice fields. Everyone knows the joint workouts begin at 3 p.m.
“I have so much respect for Coach Coughlin,” said Lewis as he prepared to host a future Hall-of-Fame coach for two days.
Lewis has to smile. When he was the Ravens defensive coordinator and Coughlin was the head coach of the Jaguars, they would run into each other down south on the scouting road. If Lewis knew he and Coughlin were on the same schedule, such as leaving the University of North Carolina to be at North Carolina State the next day, Lewis would try to beat Coughlin to the school the next morning in a monumental task against the NFL’s notorious early-riser.