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The Cincinnati Bengals' defense is greatly improved this season . They're fifth in total defense and No.

The one constant criticism of the Bengals during Marvin Lewisa tenure before this season had been their failure to indentify an identity.

His team is "not playing playoff football for sure right now," Chad Ochocinco said as he sat at his dressing stall afterward, but there's no denying the Cincinnati Bengals already are into the Christmas spirit.

Tom Nelson has been ready for Sunday's game since securing one of the final roster spots during training camp this summer as an undrafted free agent out of Illinois State.

Bengals linebacker Rey Maualuga was relieved to hear Thursday that his younger brother and other relatives on America Samoa were fine following Tuesday's tsunami.

Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evening, we'll update the practice/injury chart leading up to Sunday's game.

Which Cincinnati Bengals team will show up Sunday at Lambeau Field: the one that lost its first eight games in 2008 or the one that rebounded and posted a winning record in the second half of the season? Last year, Cincinnati became one of nearly four dozen teams to open a season 0-8. More noteworthy, the Bengals became just the second team in NFL ...

At first the level of experience doesn't seem that much different in 2008 and 2009 when the Bengals cut their roster.

With the Bengals holding two-a-day practice on Monday, I used the morning session as an opportunity to hone in on individual players and evaluate their performance in camp thus far.

GEORGETOWN, Ky. _ As usually happens in a much anticipated event, the names you don't expect to hear are all you hear.

Former University of Iowa linebackers Abdul Hodge and Chad Greenway pose during the team's media day in 2004.

For many of the players who come out of the tunnel at Family Night it is their first time in Lambeau Field, and they are hoping to make a good impression.