Bengals Kickoff to the Preseason Starts in Detroit
From: Sports Network The Cincinnati Bengals viewed Andy Dalton as both the present and the future at quarterback when they chose the former TCU star in the second round of this year’s draft. The rookie gets his first chance to prove his new team right...
Posted: 8/12/2011 5:33 PM in Bengals Gab
Andy Dalton's Path to the Bengals Began in 1969
While we all chew our fingernails in eager anticipation of the Bengals' first preseason game of 2011 and rookie quarterback Andy Dalton's professional debut, we might stop to reflect on how we've gotten here. Barring an injury or a meltdown over the ...
Posted: 8/12/2011 5:02 PM in Cincy Jungle
Bengals’ “New Beginning” 2.0
Marvin Lewis’ second “New Beginning” could not have gotten off to a less auspicious start than when news leaked that franchise quarterback Carson Palmer was demanding to be traded to a West Coast / warm weather team. Otherwise, rumor had it, he would...
Posted: 8/12/2011 4:43 PM in Stripe Hype
What to watch tonight
Be on the lookout for this one tonight. Tonight's the first of several potential ass-whoopings this season. The Bengals are typically bad, but they always to seem find a way to take it to another level in the preseason. Last
Posted: 8/12/2011 4:20 PM in WhoDeyRevolution
For openers, what we’d like to see
DETROIT — What we’d like to see in Friday’s preseason opener (7:30 p.m., Cincinnati’s Channel 12) at Ford Field against the Lions. » Eleven men on the field on offense. Not 10. Not 12. No timeouts blown because they can’t get the play in. You’ve got to...
Posted: 8/12/2011 4:04 PM in Bengals.Com Blogs
Pregame Open Thread: Preseason Game #1
At 7:15 p.m. the game's open thread will go online and in there, we'll talk about the Bengals and our impression about what we're seeing tonight. Until then we typically run a pregame open thread, getting everyone together in the ready room, or the g...
Posted: 8/12/2011 4:00 PM in Cincy Jungle
Commentary: Tonight is Huge, Especially For the Undrafted Rookies
Everybody loves the underdog. The underdog is as American as Apple Pie and baseball football. We see it in everything from movies (Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky VI, Rocky VII, Rocky VIII, Rocky IX, Rocky X and in Rudy) to spo...
Posted: 8/12/2011 3:44 PM in Cincy Jungle
The “New Beginning” 1.0: Setting the Context
Marvin Lewis with Bengals' owner Mike Brown at their January 4th, 2011 press conference announcing the extension of Lewis's contract. The 2011 Cincinnati Bengals’ season offers me, as a writer, a unique opportunity to chronicle Year One of Marvin Lewis’...
Posted: 8/12/2011 3:23 PM in Stripe Hype