February 22, 2012

Bengals Sign a Running Back

Will Brown do backflips in Stripes?

The Bengals got a bit of a jump on free agency with the signing of former Detroit Lions running back Aaron Brown yesterday. Brown is heading into his fourth NFL season after having spent his first three seasons with Detroit, who selected him in the 6th round of the 2009 NFL draft.  Brown was cut [...]

Carrier To Coach DB’s; Guenther Gets Linebackers

What can Carrier do with Reggie Nelson, Taylor Mays and the young Bengal DB's?

    The lingering questions regarding the Bengal coaching staff were put to rest today as the team announced the addition of former Safety Mark Carrier as defensive backs coach and the elevation of defensive assistant Paul Geunther to Linebackers coach. Guenther has been with the Bengals since 2005 serving in a variety of roles.  [...]

Bunting Mock 2.0: Richardson and Jenkins To Bengals

Wes Bunting has Richardson getting Stripes

National Football Post’s West Wes Bunting published his second Mock Draft today, and in it he has Alabama RB Trent Richardson falling all the way to 17, where the Bengals happily snatch him up.  Richardson, the consensus top back in this draft class should be long gone by 17, but Bunting suggests it will happen [...]

Coaching Staff Update

zimmer

    With Tampa Bay looking way outside the box and selecting Rutgers coach Greg Schiano to lead the Bucs, it looks like Mike Zimmer will be in Cincinnati for the 2012 season. All together now:  Whewh! Sure the Raiders are still without a coach, but the chances that Zimmer gets that one are few, especially [...]

Zim Watch: Bucs Still Talking

Coach Zimmer is still in the running in Tampa Bay.

According to sources in Tampa, the Buccaneers are still interested in Bengals Defensive Coordinator Mike Zimmer for their vacant head coaching position.  The Tampa Tribune states that Zimmer will get a second interview, though apparently several others will as well: The Bucs are scheduling second interviews from a list of known candidates that include former Bengals defensive coordinator Mike [...]

Carson Palmer: 2011 Bengals MVP

Palmer MVP

Like many of you, I spent the majority of this past year hating Carson Palmer’s guts.  Not just at the standard hatred level mind you, but major league hate; right up there with the way I hate the US tax code, slow drivers in the left lane, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and slow drivers in the left lane [...]

Whither Zimmer?

If Zimmer heads south, will he bring any assistants with him?

  With Offensive Coordinator Jay Gruden locked into a 3-year, 3.6 million dollar extension, all eyes are fixed on the future of Defensive Coordinator Mike Zimmer. Zimmer has emerged as the apparent front runner for the Miami Dolphins, and reports surfaced yesterday that the Bengals granted Tampa Bay permission to talk to him as well. [...]

All Bengal Eyes Now on Future of Zimmer; Gruden

Could Gruden be "one & done" in the Queen City?

Now that the offseason has (unfortunately) begun, all eyes now turn to the coaching staff, and how in may potentially change in light of all of the head coaching positions available. Offensive Coordinator Jay Gruden has long been speculated to be a leading candidate to replace Jack Del Rio in Jacksonville, and sources report he [...]

A Painful End

After holding leads of 7-0 and 10-7, the Bengals let the Texans score 24 unanswered points.

In the end, the Bengals unfortunately proved what many had said:  They weren’t quite ready for this.  The Texans were, and won going away, 31-10. The Bengals proved they couldn’t stop the Texans running game, and they proved their offense couldn’t put up points in a loud, hostile playoff environment. The defense that had been first [...]

Bengals Down 17-10 at the Break

lewis is due

In a hard-fought first half that saw the Bengals leading 7-0 and 10-7, a disasterous interception return has the Bengals down 17-10 at the half. The Bengals opened the scoring on Cedric Benson’s 1-yard touchdown run set up by a 52-yard pass interference penalty.  The Texans came back and scored a touchdown on Arian Foster’s [...]