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Bengals Pulse
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Rizzo vs. Lewis! ARE YOU READY?!?! |
Rizzo's Saints will be facing Lewis' Bengals for the first time this week. With both teams having top 5 pass offenses you can likely expect some fireworks through the air, but it may be more interesting to see how the ground game turns out. The Bengals enter this game with the #3 run defense while the Saints come in with the #4 run offense.
Reggie Bush is coming into this game averaging over 6 yards per carry and has not been held under 100 yards once this season despite only going over 21 carries once.
The Bengals on the other hand have not given up 100 yards on the ground to any one player. In fact, they haven't given up more than 80. To show you just how dominant the Bengals run defense has been thus far, here is a list of the runningbacks the Bengals have faced and their carries/yards.
Brandon Jacobs 23/59
Laurence Maroney 24/80
Ronnie Brown 16/46
Carnell Williams 14/53
Chris Johnson 16/61
As you can see, the guys on this list aren't on Bush's level yet, but it is still impressive. The Bengals and their GM are excited to get to face a back of Bush's caliber. In an interview Lewis said, "Reggie Bush has been having little trouble putting together an MVP-like season early on. He's honestly made it look easy so far. He's one of the few runningbacks in this league that I'm a little worried about. I think our linebackers match up well against him, but you can't ever be sure. It's gonna be fun."
The Bush vs. Brooks and company may or may not be exciting, but you can bet the game will. This is a matchup of the #2 and #3 total offense teams, and #2 and #6 total scoring teams. The Bengals look to improve to 5-1 while the Saints look to go to 4-2.
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Forum Discussion
(by L_Lewis on 05/08/2009)
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Bengals Make Big Deal (plus another) |
After giving up 154 yards on 21 carries to Clinton Portis in week 1, the Bengals felt they needed to beef up their D-Line. They gave up a 3rd rounder in order to do that and bring in 347 pound DT Frank Okam from the Giants. In week 2 they gave up 70 yards on 26 carries to rookie Bo Jackson.
The next position they felt they should improve at was ROLB. In order to do that, they decided to give up some of their talent at WR. Chad Johnson was responsible for nearly 3000 receiving yards over the last two seasons. Unfortunately, he changed his last name to Ocho Cinco and the team just felt it was time to part ways. Despite his amazing playmaking ability, Palmer proved last week that he could still lead this team through the air without him as Ocho Cinco watched from the sidelines while recovering from an injury. The good news for Bengals fans is that they will have a new, younger stud coming in to replace him. The 6'3, 25 year old Jacoby Jones from Lane (yes, that really is a college) will take his spot in the starting lineup.
Along with Jones, the Bengals will be bringing in a bigger, faster, stronger, and younger ROLB in Cliff Avril. In his rookie year, Avril had 85 tackles and 16 of them were for a loss. That is 30 more tackles and 11 more TFLs than Landon Johnson, the final player involved in this trade. While Avril only had 2 sacks, that is two more than Johnson had. The Bengals also picked up the Redskins 3rd round pick.
Summary of the three trades:
Bengals Receive:
WR Jacoby Jones
OLB Cliff Avril
DT Frank Okam
Redskins 3rd Round Pick
Bengals Give:
WR Chad Ocho Cinco
OLB Landon Johnson
Bengals 3rd Round Pick
Redskins Receive:
WR Chad Ocho Cinco
OLB Landon Johnson
Redskins Give:
WR Jacoby Jones
OLB Cliff Avril
Redskins 3rd Round Pick
Giants Receive:
Bengals 3rd Round Pick
Giants Give:
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Forum Discussion
(by L_Lewis on 10/27/2008)
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At A Glance
| AFC North |
| RNK |
TEAM |
W-L-T |
PCT |
DIV |
| #5 |
 Bengals |
5-2-0 |
0.714 |
2-1 |
| #8 |
 Browns |
4-2-0 |
0.667 |
1-1 |
| #14 |
 Ravens |
3-3-0 |
0.500 |
1-2 |
| #26 |
 Steelers |
2-4-0 |
0.333 |
1-1 |
| BENGALS SCHEDULE |
| WK |
DATE |
OPPONENT |
TIME/RESULT |
| 1 |
Sep 8 |
vs  Jets #13 |
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| 2 |
Sep 15 |
vs  Colts #32 |
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| 3 |
Sep 22 |
vs Browns #8 |
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| 4 |
Sep 29 |
at Ravens #14 |
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| 5 |
Oct 6 |
at  Rams #4 |
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| 6 |
Oct 13 |
vs  Seahawks #31 |
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| 7 |
Oct 20 |
vs Steelers #26 |
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| 9 |
Nov 3 |
at Browns #8 |
1:00pm |
| 10 |
Nov 10 |
at  49ers #11 |
4:15pm |
| 11 |
Nov 17 |
vs  Cardinals #9 |
1:00pm |
| 12 |
Nov 24 |
vs  Titans #17 |
1:00pm |
| 13 |
Dec 1 |
at Steelers #26 |
1:00pm |
| 14 |
Dec 8 |
at  Texans #24 |
4:00pm |
| 15 |
Dec 15 |
at  Jaguars #15 |
1:00pm |
| 16 |
Dec 21 |
at  Chiefs #29 |
1:00pm |
| 17 |
Dec 29 |
vs Ravens #14 |
4:15pm |
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#5 Cincinnati Bengals
