Cincinnati Bengals Links and Notes: Wednesday 10/7
Practice is back in full session as the Bengals prepare to travel to Baltimore to take on the Ravens this weekend. In what should be a premier game in the NFL this week, first-place AFC North titans will clash in an intriguing matchup on both sides of the ball. Hopefully Bobby Brat watched New England exploit Baltimore's defense: a healthy committment to the run helped keep Tom Brady on his feet and opened up the passing game. I don't think the Cincy Jungle favored approach of "passing to set up the run" will be particularly useful against a Baltimore defense that really only has one hole: Dawan Landry in coverage. Ed Reed and the front 7 do a pretty good job of disguising that, but maybe Palmer can pick on Landry enough early to back the Ravens off. Only time will tell!
Enough of my opinion, here's what the internets say:
- J.P. Foschi is reveling in the glory of his big catches against Cleveland, and Tony Stewart is impressed. Bratkowski likes the big guy's soft hands, and we maybe in for more of the same from Foschi.
- Geoff Hobson wrote an excellent piece on the Cincinnati Bengals and community: both in the locker room and in the literal community. This team seems much more cohesive than what we've seen in the past, from starters to back ups. That's good to see for a club that was long-reputed in media circles for divas and thugs. T.J. Houshmandzadeh is still running his mouth in Seattle - could his departure have helped strengthen the familial bonds between Bengal players?
- Staying on the "helping out in the community" vein, John Eradi wrote about a group of Bengals that helped build a playground near the Price Hill Community Center. 40 guys showed up at 10:00 AM to plant grass and help build, in Daniel Coats' words "a sweet park."
- Eradi also wrote a piece highlighting the resurgence of Jeremi Johnson, who exemplifies the "do your job" mantra.
- Joe Reedy's weekly 3-and-out column, which highlights 3 key factors for the Bengals in upcoming games is out. Reedy emphasizes the Ravens' passing game, injuries to starters for both teams (the Ravens might be without left tackle Jared Gaither and LB Brendon Ayanbadejo), and the Ravens' apparently soft pass-D. Maybe I was wrong about running to open up the pass - but it sure worked for Brady last week.
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i honestly think we can hold down their offense
if we blitz a lot and sell out on the run. especially if mason is out.
Few thoughts
1- TJ being gone seems to have done a lot of good. It opens up room for Caldwell’s development and a negative presence is gone. He’s done horrible in Seattle so far this season but he should’ve seen that coming. It’s obvious that he’s not a #1 WR.
2- Who have the Ravens played? Browns, Chiefs, Chargers, Patriots. Of those teams only one of them is a legitimate playoff team and that’s the Patriots. The Chargers barely beat Oakland in the opener and got dominated by the Steelers. It appears that they have an incredibly weak defense and LT is quickly approaching the downside of his career. I’m not saying the Ravens are overrated but they haven’t beaten a proven team yet.
edwards traded from browns
to jets. appears braylon edwards blow up late sunday night ended his time in cleveland.
Yeah, and Crabtree signed.
Decided not to post a link though, figured everyone knew – and it’s not directly Bengals news.
Character, gotta have it.
What’s up with all these “character guys” on our team? For a second I thought I was on the Colts blogpage….but nope, it just turned out that this team has it.
Kind of a nice change of pace isn’t it?
This is our year!
Can't believe i'm saying it, but glad TJ left.
It’s kinda like teaching kindegarten w/ the bengals. You have a group of kids who are rambunctious and seem to have a ring leader. But when you separate the ring leader, the kids still behave rambunctiously. But the seemingly innocuous and relatively reasonable redhead had been the firestarter the whole time, without you ever knowing it, until the day said redhead was out of school and all the kids behaved angelically. TJ is that redhead.
by Yaccub Fleishcman on Oct 7, 2009 3:14 PM EDT reply actions
A few points
I agree with the TJ thing. Since they signed Coles for about the same as they could have kept TJ for, I think they wanted his attitude out of the locker room. From what I’ve heard Levi Jones was a very similar locker room guy.
Has anyone given credit to coach Hayes for the job he’s done with a TE that was about to be cut and one we picked up off the street the week before the regular season.
small news
JP Foschi is gonna appear at a samll local charity event next Monday night. I dont need to push the details but its a fundraiser that’s close to me and i’d like to give him major props for giving his time to help make a difference in one child’s life.
JP, you just made my list of fave Bengals!!!
"I have found me a home"

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