These aren’t your father’s OTAs. Or mandatory minicamp. Which is just fine with NFL Players Association president Eric Winston and former Bengals wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh.
Welcome to the Generation Gap, NFL style. Houshmandzadeh’s last spring playing for head coach Marvin Lewis came in 2008, three years before a new collective bargaining agreement.
“This practice was like eating a cup cake and our practices were like being a Navy Seal. It’s completely different,” said Houshmandzadeh, who served as one of the club’s minority coaching interns the past two weeks.
Lewis ended the mandatory minicamp and with it all the spring workouts when he faked the guys out Thursday afternoon.