{"id":855252,"date":"2026-04-05T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855252\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:06:23","slug":"why-bengals-brass-didnt-speak-at-nfl-meetings-like-30-other-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855252\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bengals brass didn\u2019t speak at NFL meetings like 30 other teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/test-post-221407100.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cincinnati Bengals&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> (mildly) surprised onlookers last week at league meetings when they didn\u2019t make Executive Vice President Katie Blackburn available to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Annually, that\u2019s usually when fans get to hear from Blackburn, who can provide insights on the direction of the team, why ownership voted certain ways on topics and other items.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Blackburn wasn\u2019t available, leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bengals&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bengals<\/a> head coach Zac Taylor to fend for himself.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Athletic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7162085\/2026\/04\/02\/bengals-nfl-league-meeting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paul Dehner Jr,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Paul Dehner Jr,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Paul Dehner Jr,<\/a> this is part of a supposed plan by the team to change its offseason media schedule:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bengals say the move was part of a broader decision to recalibrate their schedule of media availability for front-office employees and the team\u2019s ownership group. Blackburn is expected to speak to the group of Bengals media who made the trip to Phoenix in June, when the team feels she will be in a better position to address the full offseason, following free agency, the draft and schedule release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, as Dehner goes on to note, the Bengals were just one of two teams not to make a front office member or general manager available.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The other team was the Arizona Cardinals, so not exactly shining company.<\/p>\n<p>Good intentions or not, the Bengals\u2019 decision to make this change just so happens to fall during a year when the offseason process is under fire and there is more pressure than ever to support Joe Burrow.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/04\/05\/bengals-brass-didnt-speak-nfl-meetings-explained\/89475483007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Why Bengals brass didn\u2019t speak at NFL meetings like 30 other teams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Why Bengals brass didn\u2019t speak at NFL meetings like 30 other teams&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Why Bengals brass didn\u2019t speak at NFL meetings like 30 other teams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals (mildly) surprised onlookers last week at league meetings when they didn\u2019t make Executive Vice President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[390,228,227,256,2296,7,1577,36453,115514,6,12054,2729],"class_list":{"0":"post-855252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-joe-burrow","15":"tag-katie-blackburn","16":"tag-league-meetings","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-paul-dehner-jr","19":"tag-zac-taylor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116352725308644525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}