Who Else is Bummed?We lost a legend...

[GoldenArm9]

RIP Coy Bacon ....:(

[BleedNOrange]

I wish I could have seen him play. 26 sacks in a single (shortened) season?!? Wow. Rest in Peace Coy.

[GoldenArm9]

Originally Posted by BleedNOrange

I wish I could have seen him play. 26 sacks in a single (shortened) season?!? Wow. Rest in Peace Coy.

I was fortunate and got to see him play ...he was a force ....

[THEBURG]

Yes I got to see him play a bunch, if you go back through the posts, when people ask what former player could help this team, or who would you like to see on the team, my answer has always been Coy, my son has his autograph.

[whodey1967]

my lord...

Coy Bacon is gone

Theres only one other player that I ever saw handle double and triple teams the way Coy did, and that was Deacon Jones.
we traded coy and lemar parrish to the skins for a 1st round pick, and it was probably the darkest day in bengals history.
Coy recorded 26 sacks for the bengals in 1976, and was an instant legend in cincy.
I had the pleasure to meet him in the 90's, long after his playing days were over, and It was very thrilling to shake his hand, as I could feel that I was in the presence of one of the best defensive players that had ever lived.

rest in peace my friend, and know that the lucky ones of us that got to see you play will always remember.

[Bengals Mike]

I don't mean to question how great he is, after all 26 sacks in any year is amazing but why is it that in his 14 years, he played for 4 teams and only spent 2 years with the Bengals

[whodey1967]

Originally Posted by Bengals Mike

I don't mean to question how great he is, after all 26 sacks in any year is amazing but why is it that in his 14 years, he played for 4 teams and only spent 2 years with the Bengals

signed as FA by the cowboys who nearly instantly traded him to the rams...at this time the rams had merlin olsen, deacon jones, lemar lundy and jones (the fearsome foursome)...the rams traded him to SD for John Hadl...the chargers traded him to us for charlie joiner, and we (stupidly) traded him and lemar parrish to the redskins for their 1st round pick which we used on either charles alexander or Jack "the throwin somoan" thompson...both of whom were busts.
he was a member of 5 teams, but never played a down for the cowboys.

[whodey1967]

Originally Posted by Bengals Mike

I don't mean to question how great he is, after all 26 sacks in any year is amazing but why is it that in his 14 years, he played for 4 teams and only spent 2 years with the Bengals

26 sacks in 14 game schedule

[Bengals Mike]

Originally Posted by whodey1967

signed as FA by the cowboys who nearly instantly traded him to the rams...at this time the rams had merlin olsen, deacon jones, lemar lundy and jones (the fearsome foursome)...the rams traded him to SD for John Hadl...the chargers traded him to us for charlie joiner, and we (stupidly) traded him and lemar parrish to the redskins for their 1st round pick which we used on either charles alexander or Jack "the throwin somoan" thompson...both of whom were busts.
he was a member of 5 teams, but never played a down for the cowboys.

well that's what I mean, how could the Bengals let go of a guy who had 26 sacks in a year??

[whodey1967]

Originally Posted by Bengals Mike

well that's what I mean, how could the Bengals let go of a guy who had 26 sacks in a year??

had just drafted ross browner and eddie edwards and thought that coy was expendable.

[striped4war]

RIP Coy

[1968Bengal]

How is Coy Bacon not in the Hall of Fame ?

[Bengals Mike]

Originally Posted by whodey1967

had just drafted ross browner and eddie edwards and thought that coy was expendable.

but after only 2 years?? hard to believe that was a Paul Brown Mistake

[Carl Spackler]

I don't want to be disrespectful under the circumstances, but wasn't he a bit of a one year wonder. I am asking.

[Bengals Mike]

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

I don't want to be disrespectful under the circumstances, but wasn't he a bit of a one year wonder. I am asking.

that's what I'm wondering as well, Coy only played 2 years here and played for several teams in his career, if he was that amazing then why didnt a single team keep him for his career?

[Bengal Dude]

Originally Posted by Bengals Mike

but after only 2 years?? hard to believe that was a Paul Brown Mistake

Paul did have his mistakes, like everyone else. He passed on Bill Walsh taking over as HC.

[gregor75]

Originally Posted by 1968Bengal

How is Coy Bacon not in the Hall of Fame ?

I would assume he is not in the hall because sacks were not really counted during his playing career. Look back at the season he had for us with 21.5 and he claimed he had 26. Unfortunately he was a great player at a time where his specialty was not kept up on like today.
RIP Coy

[Schweickart22]

IRONTON — Don’t pay any attention to the NFL record-keeping office. They never had to escape Coy Bacon.

Ironton’s Coy Bacon, who died Monday at the age of 66, unofficially registered 130 career sacks, more than any player in history.

However, he is not recognized as the all-time leader because the NFL didn’t begin to keep sacks as an official record until 1982.

The former All-Pro Bacon had the most sacks in an individual season when he racked up 26 in 1976, but, again, the NFL does not recognize it as the record because it came prior to 1982.

Bill “Tiger” Johnson, who coached in the NFL for nearly six decades, once called Bacon the second-best pass rusher he ever saw behind Gino Marchetti of the Baltimore Colts. He was listed among the top 10 in a Sports Illustrated story.

“As a pass rusher, Coy had tremendous ability,” Johnson said in a 2002 interview.

“Coy had excellent quickness. As a pass rusher, Gino Marchetti of the Colts and Deacon Jones were two of the best. Marchetti was really something, but Coy was equal in that phase. He was a great pass rusher.”

Regardless of where he was ranked, he was on everyone’s list.

“Coy was a tremendous player for the Bengals, the greatest pass rusher our team has ever had,” said Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown in a statement this past week upon learning of Bacon’s death.

“After he left the team, he worked hard to make life better for youths in the Ironton area. What he did was admirable, something all of us respect. We are saddened by his passing.”

The Bengals were in need of a pass rusher and traded wide receiver Charlie Joyner for Bacon in 1975. Bacon was an All-Pro in his two seasons with the team and set the team record with 26 which was later downgraded to 21.5 sacks by the NFL.

The former record that has since been broken by Mark Gastineau and then Michael Strahan.

The Washington Redskins picked up Bacon in 1978 and he registered 15 sacks — still a Redskins’ team record — and got 11 more in 1980. He finished his career with the Washington Federals of the USFL in 1983.

Bacon was a standout lineman and basketball player for the Ironton Fighting Tigers who went on to play at Jackson State and then spent 14 years in the NFL.

Although he was a great pass rusher, Bacon was not a situational player who was only inserted on long-yardage or passing downs. He played all the time.

Bacon wanted to be remembered as a complete defensive lineman, not just a pass rusher.

“You don’t play 16 yeas in the NFL and not be able to play the run. You can’t just be a good pass rusher or just a good run defender. I played every down. A pass rusher plays only in pass-rushing situations,” Bacon said in a previous interview.

Former Bengals’ offensive lineman and radio color analyst Dave Lapham played with the 6-foot-4,270-pound Bacon.

“He was the best pass rusher I ever saw. He had a very nimble body for a guy his size,” said Lapham.

Maybe now the NFL will pay attention, along with the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

**Should the Front Office try to push for the NFL to do something about this??

[hacker]

If we had Coy Bacon today, we'd be a pretty solid defense that's for sure.

[BANJAXED]

RIP.

He turned his life around after the shooting in Washington and did do a lot for the community.

Imagine 20+ sacks in a season?!?

We barely get 5.