Scribe Session Series: Ashley Ambrose

The Scribe Session podcast series catching up with former Bengals from the 90s and early 2000s continues with the second edition to see what they are up to now, hear stories from old days, opinions on what went wrong (and occasionally right) as well as the challenges in the changing landscape of post-football life.

This week I chat with former free agent splash and All-Pro cornerback Ashley Ambrose, now the defensive backs coach at the University of Idaho.

Ambrose put together a 13-year NFL career with his greatest season coming in 1996, his first in Cincinnati. He collected eight interceptions that year and went to the Pro Bowl but the season goes down as one of the most interesting in Bengals history.

Why would a top player on the free agent market come to Cincinnati at that time? What was the locker room like during Dave Shula's final days before a move to Bruce Coslet was promoted to head coach? What is the internal struggle like decided whether or not to pursue coaching once an NFL career ends? What do you tell kids today chasing an NFL dream about concerns of the league and how it's changed?

Answers to all those questions and much more as this series rolls on.

Keep an eye out over the coming weeks as a string of former players will join me to discuss life after football and stories from The Lost Decade. Next week will be former longtime Bengals tight end Tony McGee.

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