Rich Braham News

Seventh-year pro has played in Games 2-3 on special teams ... Inactive for Game 1 vs.

While Brett Favre tries to silence the hostile Lambeau Field crowd and the Broncos, Colts and Saints attempt to stay undefeated, the Cincinnati Bengals are taking the weekend off and basking in the glory of their 5-2 start.

Q: You said, "A theme of the bye week is going to be how surprisingly well the offensive line has played." I for one am not surprised.

Q: With all the discussion about drafting a center and the importance of the position, how has the center position ranked so far this season? I assume that Cook has been part of the story with the establishment of a running game, but I'm not astute enough to know how important.

Head coach Marvin Lewis has had five days to digest Sunday's Spike Strike loss to the Broncos and he concluded Friday that the 49-41 loss to San Diego in 2006 "was a much harder loss." In that one the Bengals blew a 28-7 halftime lead to the consensus most talented team in the league and ended up losing the lead so quickly that the Chargers ...

TIME: 1 p.m., Sunday PLACE: Lambeau Field, GrassMaster TV: CBS team of play-by-play man Ian Eagle and analyst Rich Gannon live on Channel 12 in Cincinnati, Channel 7 in Dayton, OH, and Channel 27 in Lexington, KY.

We're not here to pile on Carson Palmer. We still believe that he gives the Bengals offense the best chance to succeed.

At one point, circa 2005, Marvin Lewis was so popular and well-endorsed as an up-and-coming coaching genius, that he could have run for president.

This year's Cincinnati Bengals have been labeled a sexy pick as one of the unlikeliest NFL teams to reach the Super Bowl, much like the Arizona Cardinals in 2008.

In conjunction with our current home page fan poll, over the next several days we will be taking a look back at the most memorable games of the Marvin Lewis era.

In conjunction with our current home page fan poll, over the next several days we will be taking a look back at the most memorable games of the Marvin Lewis era.

In this article, I am going to attempt to put an all-time Bengals team together.

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The Bengals finished 32nd out of the 32 teams in the NFL last season in total offense.