Golden has moved on, but The Broyles has not. It's staying in Bengaldom.
"What makes the Broyles award so special is that the five finalists come into Hot Springs and we become such fans of theirs and their careers," Harrell said. "They're Bengals fans now. They're going to be watching the Bengals defense, and that's what is really great to us."
Harrell is already married to a Bengals fan, an LSU guy. The year Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase led the Tigers to the national title, Joe Brady, their offensive coordinator. won the 2019 Broyles.
Arnold, ever the coach's daughter, only watched Burrow throw at Sunday's practice.
"We didn't want to bother him," she said.
Arnold and Harrell, with 40 years combined in the fields of multi-generational and Alzheimer's caregiving, run the Broyles Foundation that pledges to make Broyles' dream come true after he lost his wife to Alzheimer's:
No caregiver support should ever become a financial burden.
When Broyles died of the same disease a dozen years later in 2017, mother and daughter doubled down. In her closing remarks to the team Sunday, Harrell mentioned the foundation briefly, and offered its help.
"The hardest thing we had to deal with," she told them, "is just talking to someone. If you know someone who needs help, get them in touch with us."
On the day The Broyles found another home, Golden asked the senior Bengal in the room to break it down and end the meeting.
"Family on three," linebacker Logan Wilson said.
PLAY OF THE DAY
LT Orlando Brown Jr.
With Sunday morning's thermometer mulling the 90s, the Bengals' first offense went 99 yards on a hot, sweaty, grinding, sweet 16-play drive that Brown, an incumbent captain, says may go beyond a metaphor for the season.
"It's very important to who we are and what we do and what our standard is," Brown said.
Go back to third-and-two around midfield. Burrow handed it to running back Chase Brown, and he tucked himself behind his left tackle as Orlando Brown walled off first-round pick Shemar Stewart on the edge. "Follow me!!" Orlando Brown screamed as the sticks moved. Or maybe something like that in a bit more colorful language.
"I fitted him up and we were able to get the first down," Orlando Brown said. "At that point in the day, that's kind of what those drives are. Especially when you're backed up. And we overcame a little adversity from time to time."
Burrow overcame a series that began on a minus running play when nose tackle T.J. Slaton penetrated behind the line. They were also working without their top tight end (Mike Gesicki) and two of their four top wide receivers with Tee Higgins getting a break after individuals and a first-down drill, and Jermaine Burton out day-to-day with an unspecified injury.
But Chase Brown (two) and Samaje Perine (one) popped big runs on what appeared to be a diverse range of plays. Brown chewed up a bunch on a draw and Perine banged a quick hitter up the middle.
And, of course, with Burrow's back flat against the Second Street bushes on the first third down of the drive, All-Pro receiver Ja'Marr Chase went deep down the seam to keep it alive.
But it is Orlando Brown's emotion on short-yardage that gives you a sense of how passionate they are about controlling the line of scrimmage in those key spots. Brown can certainly feel it.
"I think we've got the proper mindset. Guys are working their ass off to get better," Brown said. "I sense the urgency from the players and coaches. To me, that's the biggest difference."