Bengals Ring of Honor member Tim Krumrie got a Pro Football Hall of Fame tip of the hat last week when newly elected pass rusher Jared Allen recalled his first day with Krumrie in the defensive line coach’s room in Kansas City.
“Hey Krummy, what do I need to do to get better?” Allen recounted after the 2025 Hall class was unveiled. “He said, ‘You’ve got 20 sacks in your first two years, I’m not changing crap.’ I said, ‘All right Krummy, let’s go.’ I loved Tim. I loved his toughness. His work ethic. Tim is like me. A grinder. I love him.”
Allen proceeded to have 23 sacks in the two seasons with Krumrie, including the breakout 15.5 in 2007 that brought him the first of five Pro Bowls, four first-team All-Pros, and a mega deal the next year in Minnesota.
It also got Krumrie an authentic buffalo cowboy hat, Allen’s Pro Bowl gift to him. Told that Krumrie wore it at his Ring of Honor ceremony, Allen put together his hands with a bow of his head.
“The coolest thing is (Allen) said, ‘He never met a cowboy until he met Tim Krumrie,” Krumrie says. “I think he fed off my energy. You get a high-bred horse, you don’t bust him. You just let him ride. Just let him go. He’ll get there sooner or later because he’ll wear the guy’s ass out.”
The 6-6, 270-pound Allen finished as the 12th most prolific sacker of all-time with 136, and Krumrie says that initial burst is one of the biggest reasons for them. Not to mention the “Long Arm Stick,” move Krumrie says he taught him.
“His first step is a foot further than anyone else as he’s gaining ground,” Krumrie says. “He had that long-arm stick. Stretches the guy up the field. Sticks his inside arm on his inside arm, turns the corner, and stretches him. If he oversets, go underneath.”
If there’s a 21st-century defensive lineman who is the equivalent of the run-on-your-own-gas Krumrie, it may very well be Allen. Born in Dallas 21 years after Krumrie arrived in…
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