Is it just me or does it look like at the end of this year the bengals will have a top 5 draft pick?  First we bring Chris Henry back after we cut him to "teach him a lesson."  Then we decided to cut arguably one of the best tackles in bengals history (W. Anderson), a probowl running back (R. Johnson), and a pro bowl defensive back (D. O'neal).  While i understand how Rudi was losing the starting running back race to Chris Perry, I can't believe that we didn't at least try to trade him for a solid 3rd receiver until Henry is healthy.  The Bears are dying for a running back of Johnsons  caliber, yet they don;t have any receivers worth taking so I understand why nothing came of that.  Yet Deltha O'neal was picked up by the Patriots as soon as it was possible to have a contract finalized...I hate to say it but they seem to have the "winning solution" down, so i think they know something more then we do.  Anderson should have been kept out of respect, but mainly for the reason that our offensive line let Palmer get slaughtered during the preseason and we need anyone who could help.  Thus I conclude that we are headed no where this season.  while I am a die hard fan and I'm sue it won;t come across this way, I can't get over the evidence that we are headed down the gutter.

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It appears that Joe Flacco has been named the starter against the Bengals.  This could be a great sign for the first game.  I was a little apprehensive if Troy Smith got the start simply due to the fact that he is quite mobile and we simply don't have the experience linebackers to chase him around.  Yet by some luck he still has a viral infection so we may have a chance at taking a run at their rookie.  Although it would be nice to see an OSU boy play...

Another thing we can look forward to is Chad Ocho Cinco's first game with a new name.  He said he set out to "clear his name from the mud of the offseason."  So we can only hope he doesn't re-injure his shoulder in the process of his celebrations and hopefully some spectacular catches.

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Welcome to Detroit Rudi Johnson...

SI.com reports "[Newly signed Lions running back Rudi] Johnson left his bags outside CEO Matt Millen's office while he met with team officials and, ultimately, worked out a deal with the team. So when Johnson came back to get his bags, they were nowhere to be found. Johnson and Millen were stumped. Enter the eye in the sky. The team checked the videotapes generated by the team's in-house surveillance system, and they quickly identified the culprit. So who might it have been? None other than Tatum Bell, who lost his gig with the Lions after Rudi arrived."

OK, so hopefully this takes a little heat off of the bengals for taking Chris Henry back (I still can't believe we're that stupid).  Honestly who is dumb enough to pull a move off like this, not knowing there are video cameras everywhere now a days. 

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According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, “Players tell fans; please hang in there.” I’m glad they realize the pain of the fans, too bad the owners/ coaches don’t. The article made sure to point out that all positive looks toward the season happened before Chris Henry was picked back up (which also means it was before Anderson, Johnson and O’neal were released). Yet it seems fans (even me), will still continue to flood to the stadium on Sundays with our season tickets. Looking towards 44 straight sell outs for Paul Brown Stadium, yet we can’t even yield a winning team. I can only hope that we turn things around on the offensive line and our defense can step up big, then maybe we can make the season worth watching. On a lighter note… If Corey Lynch (sa

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Keith Rivers will officially be wearing jersey number 55, the number he truly deserves.  He wore 55 as a linebacker at USC due to his amazing abilities and true leadership qualities.  He number 55 jersey is given to the best linebacker at USC every year and has been worn by many popular names.  Although Rivers started out the season with number 55 he will now be in a more comfortable jersey number of 55.  This can be seen as a great move for a great guy.  If the Bengals need anything right now it is to wash away the “convict player” mentality, and Rivers is the guy to do it.  He is a stand up guy that I don’t see ever being in trouble with the law.  Also a side note, Rivers was the leading tackler for the Bengals all preseason, which is a good sign of things to come.

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AFC North Predictions

Bengals over Ravens -Ed Reed is out, therefore Carson Palmer can simply air it out all day while we can see what Chris Perry can do on the ground. I just don’t believe Joe Flacco can get it done against our defense.

Cowboys over Browns -Although Adam (Pacman) Jones will most likely get the start and hasn’t played for some time, I simply believe that the Cowboys are too powerful of a team for the Browns to overtake. I do foresee the Browns gaining a lot of yards through the air, but the Cowboys are too sound on both sides of the ball.

Texans over Steelers -This is by far my biggest upset of week one. I feel that the Texans have the ability to outplay the Steelers with their defense as well as get Andre Johnson the ball enough to score. Both teams have great defenses and while the Steelers have a better offense, I see the Texan’s pass rush getting into Big Ben's head and forcing errors.

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Well here we go again, another horrible season…

I honestly can’t believe how horrible our offensive line is.  They allowed Carson Palmer to get sack on the first 2 passing plays.  Due to their horrible play Carson had to run around constantly afraid he would get his head knocked off by a very experienced Ravens defense, which lead to many horrible passes/ dropped balls, bad plays in general.  We need to do something about this line which has made me realize/ hope we take an offensive lineman in one of the first 2 rounds of the draft next year. 

Chris Perry was a lot better than I expected him to be (except for his fumble), and I feel he would be a lot better with a offensive line to actually block for him.

I can’t get over how well Jonathan Joseph played today.  He played like a true pro-bowl corner and I can’t wait to see him the rest of the season.  Leon Hall played ok, as did the rest of our defensive backs, but Joseph far excelled in all areas of the defensive backfield(as well as scoring a touchdown).

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So today my question was finally answered… I’m not the only one who thinks that Carson Palmer has lost his leadership role in the huddle and on the field. This morning while watching Sportscenter the topic came up and the decision was unanimous.

I first noticed the different Carson Palmer last year. It seemed that ever since his injury he lost his ability to control the players and assert his command. He seems scared in the pocket and with that he seems scared to get in a linemen’s face to tell him to block better. When we had that one great season and actually made the playoffs, I was clear who the leader was. Then the injury came and all was lost. Chad took over as a trash talking almost anti-cincy villain and Carson waited too long to comment on Chad’s behavior. I also remember a time when Chad would b*tch Carson out on the sideline for not throwing to him/ calling his number in the huddle.

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It turns out that Vince young won’t be playing against the Bengals Sunday do to physical and mental problems.  When your mother has to come out and say to leave her son alone, there must be serious problems going on.  I think that obviously Vince young has had something horrible happen recently with his family that he must deal with on a day to day basis.  My best guess is a death in the family.  Although for all I know she can be referring to the fact that he is known as a player who doesn’t LOVE the game.  Therefore his mental problems can be Ricky Williams-esk in that he just doesn’t want to play football for the rest of his life and is content with the money he has made/ saved.

A lot of commentators think that even though Vince is out, the Titans will still be a great team, if not better then where they were with Vince.  Thus him being out can be seen as a good or bad perspective for the Bengals Sunday.  Although seeing Flacco scramble for a touchdown and knowing Vince is a running quarterback puts my mind at ease a little bit.

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It seems that I’m not the only person who foresaw the Bengals having another dismal season this year. It appears that most season ticket holders are attempting to sell their tickets second hand online. Yet the season tickets holders can’t even find buyers. While the Bengals have been sold out since the opening of Paul Brown Stadium, it isn’t the season ticket holders who are contributing to the sell outs this year.

It turns out that even on the second hand market, Bengals tickets aren’t going for face value, in fact they are quite below that value. While this is the Bengals home opener and is historic for selling second hand at almost twice the value this year the tickets are going for less than half( a 64 dollar ticket is going for 29 dollars). I happen to be a season ticket holder of the Bengals and am very glad that I was able to get rid of the tickets for this Sunday’s game against the Titans before the prices dropped (due to myself going to the Purdue-Oregon game and then staying on campus to watch the OSU-USC game and not being able to make it back in time). I also happened to sell the Browns and Pittsburg tickets about 2 months ago due to the fact that I predicted the Bengals would have a disappointing season and by selling these tickets I pretty much covered the expenses of the whole season. While I was lucky, it is apparent that other tickets holders as well as ticket brokers are feeling the hurt.

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As requested by Jon Gibson I will contiue my week by week predictions even though I only got 5 predictions right out fo 15.

AFC North Predictions 

This is a Bengals blog so of course I'm going to pick the Bengals over the Titans, hoping that we can get our act together.  Plus Marvin stated we'd go undefeated at home, so lets see what he knows...

Pittsburgh over Cleveland - Pittsburgh looked unstoppable last week and thus I believe they will simply roll over the Browns.

Houston over Baltimore - I just don;t feel that Baltimore is a strong team and I really believe Houston is a great sleeper team for this year, so I'm going to be bold and go with Houston.

Other Predictions:

Green Bay over Detroit

Giants over Rams

New Orleans over Washington

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So much for Marvin’s guarantee to win all home games this season…

WOW, this was the football weekend from hell for me… First, as I mentioned I went to the Purdue/ Oregon game, while I’m not a Purdue fan I did want them to beat a pac 10 school thus I was rooting for them. If you didn’t see it, they lost in double overtime… then since it was a double overtime game I had to conivince Purdue fans to rush me to a local bar to watch the OSU/ USC game, and we all knew how that went. Thus I was looking forward to a hopeful Bengals win, which didn’t quite happen, yet the worst part was that due to the high winds my power has been knocked out for over 24 hours, I missed half the game and I’m stuck away from home until it will be fixed “within a week.”

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I didn’t expect it to happen so soon, but the bad off season moves have finally hit home. While I felt that Deltha O’neal was on the decline, I did think we needed to keep him as a valuable nickel back, yet the Bengals didn’t believe so and cut him. Now with Jonathan Joseph sustaining a sprained ankle last week, we are down a valuable corner with no sustainable replacement. Thus the Bengals were forced to pull Geoffrey Pope off the Practice squad and cut Guard Frank Davis.

Ben Utech looks like he may well be out for the game as well, and with the struggling passing game we need any receiver we can get. Carson Palmer also sustained a sprained ankle last week yet he looks to be able to play this Sunday.

Due to Pope’s move from the practice squad the Bengal’s made some moves to fill the empty spots on the squad. They signed linebacker Abdul Hodge, a player from Iowa who was a third-round draft pick by Green Bay in 2006. He played in eight games for the Packers in 2006 and spent all of 2007 on the injured reserve list because of a knee injury. The Packers waived him Sept. 1. If my memory serves me correctly he was quite a player at Iowa and rivaled AJ Hawk as one of the Big Ten’s best linebackers. Hopefully he can get back to his college form and beef up his game enough to be a strong linebacker we need.

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Sorry I haven't written for awhile, do to having no power this blog wasn't my top priority...but to make my one and only fan happy I'm back with week 3 predictions(although I went 7 for 14 last week and I'm 12 for 29 all time).  I must say though that my upset pf the week vikings over colts may have not happened but I doubt many people saw the vikings hanging in it for so long/ so close, and due to the ravens and texans not getting a chance to play I may have lost my other upset.

AFC North Predicitons

Giants over Bengals - I'm sorry bu the Giants are playing well, and well the Bengals are playing horrible.  I know that our new CB Pope played against the first team and made it to last cuts, but i highly doubt his notes will help us stop their defense form dismantling out offense.

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Although this was another loss and puts us at 0 and 3, I am actually quite happy.  Our offense was FINALLY back to almost normal.  While Chad never got nearly as many touches as I’d like him to get, TJ was quote effective, and Antonio Chatman came out of nowhere.  Our offensive line was still quite dismal and we definitely need to revamp it in the off season, yet they did show sparks of greatness when Chris Perry was running.  Perry had established himself as the back I once saw him as when he played for Michigan and I am now glad we got rid of Rudi Johnson. 

Carson Palmer reminded me of the true pro bowler he really is.  While he had a bum ankle he ran more in this game then I can remember him running in his whole career.  I also have to give him kudos for playing with a bloodied nose yet again.  He had a few bad choices with his passes, yet his accuracy and determination was amazing.  He finally looked like the leader we need/ he used to be.  If only he could find a way to hit Chad and TJ more often.

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OK for the first time this year I think I can be almost 100 percent confident that we will win this week!?!

The Browns, like us, are struggling so far this season. Derek Anderson is playing horrible (which sucks because he’s on my fantasy team), he has sucked so bad this year that the Browns are contemplating starting Brady Quinn against the Bengals. While I understand this move (our defense can’t get pressure on the quarterback, and our defensive backs are quite banged up), I honestly believe we can work this to our favor due to his inexperience. On a side note I have always though Quinn was overrated and the Browns wasted their 2008 1st round draft pick on him. I also can’t stand “God’s team” aka Notre Dame.

If Quinn starts Sunday it will be the third time that a team has started an inexperienced quarterback against the Bengals in the past 2 years (Rams- Brock Berlin, Dolphins- John Beck). We just so happened to have won both of those games and we will definitely win this one if Quinn starts.

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It seems like every website/ newspaper across the country wrote a small piece about the Bengals today.  Most of these articles were stating that although the Bengals are 0 and 3 on the season, they are the most upbeat of the winless teams this year, while the others stated that the true fans are back on board after Sunday’s loss to the Giants.    While I agree that as a Bengals fan I felt that our last loss proved that this season won’t be a total loss, I have actually given up all hope of a playoff berth for the Bengals and have decided to focus on other sports.

My reasoning for focusing on other sports isn’t totally influenced by the Bengals, it’s mainly due to the fact that I’m a ticket broker (I know everyone can hate me now).  As of this week my first NBA tickets are coming in and since my football tickets have officially sold out this is all I have to look forward to due to the teams I love frankly sucking this year.  Besides being a Bengals fan (and enduring years of pain/ losing seasons) I’m also a huge OSU fan.  Although OSU has only lost one game to number 1 ranked USC, we have simply been horrible ever since Beanie wells went down.  I feel that as a higher caliber team OSU shouldn’t blow up entirely due to one team member going down.  I can’t believe how horrible our offense has been (besides Tyrell Pryor), how our defense can’t seem to stop anybody like they should (Ohio and Troy beat us up), and how our proven leader and quarterback Todd Beockman has totally self destructed. 

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I read an article today that made me feel a little better as well as gave me a chuckle.  Ohio isn’t the only state with two NFL teams that are 0 for 3.  Missouri’s teams (Kansas City and St. Louis) also are winless on the year.  While normally I wouldn’t care about other teams, especially the browns, I still can’t get over the fact that after a great season last year for the browns, that they are winless.  I also can’t and don’t want to believe that my beloved Bengals are also winless on the year, but the fact that both the Chiefs and Rams are also winless for their state lets me feel a little more comfortable with the current situation.

On to Sundays “Battle of Ohio”… As you all may know Brady Quinn may actually get to play (he won’t get the start but has a great chance of playing) against the Bengals this Sunday.  While I openly welcome this, due to the fact I believe he is overrated and will buckle under the pressure giving the Bengals a much needed win, there is even better news.  N’dukwe will most likely get the start this Sunday due to Dexter Jackson still being hurt.  While this may seem insignificant and to our disadvantage, he happened to  play football with Quinn for 10 years.  They went to middle school, high school and Notre Dame with Quinn.  They have been friends for years and have played on opposite sides of the ball for years.  Thus when they practiced, I can guarantee that N’dukwe picked up on Quinn’s tendencies and habits.  Thus with N’dukwe at safety Sunday and with Derek Anderson struggling, Brady Quinn will most likely play and give up at least one interception or turn over to a smart and amazing sophomore safety. 

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While last week I went 10 for 16 (honestly who saw the Dolphins beating the patriots with or without Brady), I am only 22 for 45 on the season.  So I may be no Nostrodomus but each week I seem to be getting better and better at these projections, so lets see what I can do this week…

AFC North

Bengals over Browns – I am very confident that Quinn will get into the game due to poor play by Derek Anderson.  I am also confident that due to this move it will put the Browns in a horrible position resulting in many turnovers.  Our offense is finally back on track, our receivers are past “pre-season” mode according to Marvin Lewis and we’re due for a win.

Pittsburgh over Baltimore- Regardless of Big Ben being hurt, they are simply a far superior team.  I know Baltimore is playing very well so far, but they had the benefit of an unexpected bye week for their last game.  Thus I see the Steelers taking this in a defensive low scoring game.

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Just when I thought the Bengals couldn’t get any worse after an o and 4 start, they go and pick up another player in legal trouble.  That’s right, not only is Chris Henry allowed playing in this week’s game; now Cedric Benson can join him on the field.  I honestly believe that the Bengals organization is trying to p*ss their fans off enough that they can potentially move the team. 

By taking back Chris Henry the Bengals made a statement that they didn’t care what the fans thought about the organization being the laughing stock of the NFL due to their legal troubles.  Now after starting the season 0-4 and by picking up Cedric Benson the Bengals have simply slapped all the fans in the face.  They obviously don’t want the Bengals to succeed and are pushing for their consecutive sell outs at Paul Brown stadium to vanish. 

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