Rarely do we overreact with Bengals players facing legal issues off the field. We're likely to offer patience for a legal process to pan out, allowing that we're not being presented the complete picture because context is everything. Did a player charged with assault react without instigation or was he defending someone? Not everyone concedes the difference, questioning character no matter the situation that the player is faced with. Maybe that's right, maybe that's wrong. It's all perspective.

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According to The Cincinnati Enquirer's Joe Reedy, Bengals middle linebacker Rey Maualuga could get suspended for multiple games if he is charged with a crime stemming from the report that he was in an altercation at a bar and injured a bar manager in the process. The punishment for Maualuga would be worse if there was alcohol involved and judging by the fact that bars serve alcohol (that's pretty much all they do), it would be a safe bet that there was.

If Maualuga is charged, it would be a second violation in two years under the personal conduct policy and if it was alcohol related, it could be worse. After his DUI in Covington two years ago, Maualuga was placed in stage one of the league's Alcohol and Substance Abuse program. He appealed a one-game suspension and instead was fined two game checks ($46470.58) and part of his signing bonus. That falls in line with the suspensions outlined in an agreement between the league and its players.

Said a league spokesman at the time: "Rey Maualuga of the Cincinnati Bengals has been fined two game checks and will forfeit an additional 2/17 of his signing bonus attributable to 2010 for an alcohol-related violation of law (DUI) that is also a violation of the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse."

Reedy went on to say that if Maualuga does get charged and alcohol is found to be involved, it would fall into the NFL's Substance Abuse Policy, which states: ""Discipline for a second or subsequent offense is likely to be a suspension, the duration of which may escalate for repeat offenses."

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According to FOX 19's Ethan Goldsmith, Cincinnati Bengals middle linebacker Rey Maualuga was allegedly involved in a bar fight in which he injured a bar manager.

According to the manager, Maualuga was at Luxe, a bar located at the corner of 6th St. and Main St. in downtown Cincinnati, where he allegedly punched the manager, causing him to be injured.

According to the report, the police are currently investigating the altercation and Maualuga has not been charged with a crime and it's unclear as to whether or not he will be.

Rey Maualuga is coming off his first season as the team's starting middle linebacker. If he is charged with a crime, this will not be the first time he's been in trouble in the Greater Cincinnati area. He was arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Northern Kentucky in January of 2010.

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Former Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, who posted a reception during New England's Super Bowl loss Sunday night, returned to the Tri-State area to appear in a Hamilton County courtroom on Monday. Police pulled over his 2004 Mercury on Fulton Avenue in Walnut Hills on July 21, originally cited for driving with a suspended license and a "window tint violation".

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Earlier on Thursday Bengals wide receiver Jerome Simpson was indicted by a grand jury for one count of trafficking marijuana. The incident dates back to September when authorities tracked 2.5 pounds of marijuana to Simpson's home, where they discovered another six pounds, along with supplies that posed the possibility that the home could have been used for distribution.

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Since leaving the Tennessee Titans following the 2007 season, Antwan Odom signed with the Cincinnati Bengals, missed 26 of 48 games due to an injury and faced a four-game suspension in 2010 after violating the league's policy against performance-enhancing substances. He was released from the team in late July this year, before training camp. Since then Odom was shot in the league after being involved in the middle of some love triangle and earlier this week was busted by the police.

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According to Jim Trotter of Sports Illustrated, the National Labor Relations Board dismissed Cedric Benson's "unfair labor practice charge against the NFLPA and its executive director, DeMaurice Smith". Cincinnati's feature running back filed the charge after the Players Association made a deal with the National Football League regarding several players charged with off-the-field incidents, selecting only a handful of players to make both parties happy during an offseason in which players shouldn't have been held to any personal conduct policy because no collective bargaining agreement existed -- an argument Benson used.

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Never in my five years since introducing Cincy Jungle to the world do I recall a suspension that was announced and so quickly buried as a hovering house fly like the announcement of Cedric Benson's one-game suspension on Tuesday. Without the quick-paced updates on Palmer, and the significance on Tuesday's trade, Benson would have been the lead story on during a bye-week. Additionally the seemingly importance of Benson filing an unfair practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board against the NFLPA was fairly big. Though we knew Benson was facing a suspension, we never expected the league's decision before the NLRB charge was resolved.

As the hours ticked away on Tuesday and the Bengals set themselves up to improve their personnel for the future, Cedric Benson will still be facing a one-game suspension that will be served against the Seattle Seahawks on October 30.

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