Odom had a brace on his knee and said it could be a couple of weeks...

"The prescription for us is to be more consistent, eliminate some of the penalties that were doing. We’re playing two people out there — ourselves and the opponent because we’re shooting ourselves in the foot week in and week out."

No. Mike Brown isn't going to fire assistants in midseason. Plus firing the OC has done wonders by the bay so far.

"Taking a look at the five games we’ve played, there have been a lot of things done very positively, very well," Lewis said. "We need to continue to build on those. And look at some of the things we’re not doing well enough and take hard looks at those. Revise, cut out, eliminate so that we eliminate the error and lack of execution in some things we’re doing. Don’t hurt ourselves with some of the things that have (hurt), with cadences and so forth, particularly offensively. Those are the things from a technical standpoint."

Already, T.O. is talking about the Bengals coaching staff to the NFL Network. Talking about making suggestions to the offense. See when we lose he starts talking. But I am absolutely agreeing with him as I said that the Bengals have coaching staff issues. Still he shouldn't of come out public saying stuff like that. Well lets see how these issues play out during the season.

The NFL Players Association is preparing a possible collusion case accusing teams of improperly conspiring to restrict players' salaries last offseason, people familiar with the preparation of the case said Friday...The union's prospective collusion case also could cite trades between the Washington Redskins and St. Louis Rams and public comments [regarding Dezmon Briscoe being "overpaid" by Tampa] made by Cincinnati Bengals Coach Marvin Lewis.