If you’re the Bengals.com Assistant Coach of the Year this week, you are miserable.
After working seven seasons for Andy Reid in Philadelphia, James Urban is heading into his seventh season coaching Marvin Lewis’ wide receivers in Cincinnati and that means this is just the third time he hasn’t been to the postseason.
“It’s awful,” Urban says. “I don’t know what to do. My body and mind are still in mode. My wife doesn’t know what to do with me. It’s awful.”
There is plenty to do, of course. On Tuesday Bengals president Mike Brown chaired a meeting involving Lewis’ staff, the personnel department, and ownership in which each position coach stood up and gave a report on all his players.