Dre Kirkpatrick likes his home games on the river for the team coached by the role model named Marvin Lewis and he likes to play in Paul Guenther’s East Coast edge defense and he likes walking his Rottweiler through his village even though figures from pro sports are few and far between in tiny Terrace Park on Cincinnati’s eastern fringe.
Except maybe when Lewis drives through on his way to Paul Brown Stadium.
“I like,” Kirkpatrick says, “what I like.”
That’s why he signed for five more years in Cincinnati on Friday. Other teams came at him, such as the Steelers and Titans.