{"id":37437,"date":"2025-11-10T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37437"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:56:42","slug":"breaking-logan-wilson-saga-is-part-of-a-troubling-trend-for-cincinnati-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37437","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Logan Wilson saga is part of a troubling trend for Cincinnati Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unceremoniously benching defensive captain Logan Wilson was a bad look. His ensuing trade request was not a huge surprise, although the Bengals actually honoring it was uncharacteristic. Now he\u2019s in Dallas, and a case of D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu strikes me.<\/p>\n

The year is 2020. Lou Anarumo is in his second season as the Bengals\u2019 defensive coordinator. Paycor Stadium is still Paul Brown Stadium. And toilet paper is in short supply. It is here, in a stadium filled with cardboard cutouts, that the decision is made that Sam Hubbard and Carl Lawson should be getting work in front of 31-year-old fan favorite Carlos Dunlap.<\/p>\n

Dunlap took the news a lot worse than Wilson would five years later, but the result was the same. Both were traded in-season for an uninspiring return, bringing a bitter ending to a revered career with the Bengals<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that things had to end like this for Wilson and Dunlap. Wilson was the signal caller for the Super Bowl defense, and Dunlap had a Ring of Honor-worthy career, highlighted by 82.5 sacks in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, both were kept with the team longer than their abilities lasted, and it tarnished their legacy. The Bengals have a tendency to do this. They identify players as being part of their core and extend them beyond the summit of their careers.<\/p>\n

This is something they need to do a better job with in the future. Their ability to predict the way a player will regress with age and injury is damaging to both the club and the player.<\/p>\n

Loyalty becomes a negative when it blinds you to reality. It\u2019s bad for everyone involved. In the end, it\u2019s better to let a player go a year early than a year late.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Loyalty kills legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals"],"yoast_head":"\nBREAKING : Logan Wilson saga is part of a troubling trend for Cincinnati Bengals - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37437\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Logan Wilson saga is part of a troubling trend for Cincinnati Bengals - Breaking News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Loyalty kills legacy.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37437\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Breaking News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-10T13:56:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cincin-19.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MrKen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MrKen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37437\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37437\",\"name\":\"BREAKING : Logan Wilson saga is part of a troubling trend for Cincinnati Bengals - 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