Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley
Just finished reading my pal Peter King's Tuesday mailbag column, which included more rhetoric from Bengals coach Marvin Lewis in his public stare-down with Ocho Cinco.
"We've made it clear what the stance is," Lewis said. "It's not going to change, today or in August, whenever. You cannot allow a player to get up on his high chair with four years left on his contract and demand to get out. If you do that, you set a terrible example for the rest of your team, and we won't do that."
So who will blink first? My guess is the guy who stands to lose the most money, and that would be Chad Johnson. And did Lewis mean to say "high horse" or did he intentionally take a shot at Johnson's infantile behavior? These are the questions that Hashmarks will ask -- if anyone ever calls us back.
Also some interesting stuff on T.J. Houshmandzadeh in Peter's column. By the way, Peter has admitted to reading Hashmarks at least twice a week, although we're still waiting to appear in MMQB.
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