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Previous Seasons
The defending AFC North Champions are looking to get even further along in their playoff run in 2010…just being content with AFC North Championship will not due. There were some positions that needed to be addressed and the team did very well in addressing them. The biggest/best pick was the 19th overall draft choice of TE Jermaine Gresham, which addressed their biggest concern. They also covered their pass rush deficiencies with the drafting of big 6-6 277 pound DE Carlos Dunlap. With the 84th overall draft, the Bengals selected Texas standout WR Jordan Shipley.
Another event Cincinnati Bengals fans can look forward to is for the first time in the team’s 42-year history they will be playing on Thanksgiving Day against the New York Jets Come on out and support your Cincinnati Bengals and help cheer them to Super Bowl XLVI which takes place at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The original home of the Cincinnati Bengals was Riverfront Stadium, which they shared with the town’s baseball team as well. The stadium had seats for more than 59,000 football fans, and remained the home of the Bengals until 2000, when their new stadium was built.
Despite attempts to buy naming rights to the new stadium, the owner of the Bengals, Mike Brown, named the stadium after his father to honor the man who had founded the team so many years ago. Paul Brown Stadium is often referred to by its nickname, “The Jungle” which fans carried over from the old stadium. The Jungle has seats for more than 65,000 people.
The Cincinnati Bengals are one of only five teams in the NFL without a general manager. Instead, owner Mike Brown fulfills that role within the franchise but without the title. Despite a rocky history, the Bengals have become a team to watch, giving fans plenty of excitement and entertainment at each game. In 1937, the Cincinnati Bengals became part of the first American Football League.
After a couple of seasons and some rocky years for the league, both the AFL and the Bengals ceased to exist and the United States entered into World War II. In 1967, 26 years after football in Cincinnati had come to an end, another team was created as part of the new American Football League and named the Bengals.
The AFL-NFL merger brought the Cincinnati Bengals into what is now the only American professional football league, the NFL. The team went to the playoffs three times in the seventies but could not seem to advance to the Super Bowl until the eighties, when they faced the 49ers twice, losing both games. A fourteen season losing streak followed only to end in 2005, when the Bengals advanced once again to the playoffs but not the Super Bowl.
After a dismal 2008-09 season, the Bengals looked to bounce back. Coach Marvin Lewis, marking his sixth year as the head man for the Bengals fell way below the franchises expectations as the team finished with a 4-11-1 record and for the 3rd consecutive year, failed to make the playoffs. With the loss of Rudi Johnson and a host of defensive players, the Bengals failed to make up for the losses. They did manage to acquireTE Ben Utecht from the Indianapolis Colts and DE Antwan Odom from the Tennessee Titans. The draft saw the franchise pick Southern Cal LB Keith Rivers with the 9th overall pick in the draft.
After the season, DC Chuck Bresnahan was replaced by Mike Zimmer and LB Coach Ricky Hunley was replaced by Jeff FitzGerald.
The 2007-08 Bengals fans were expecting their team to make news ON the field this season, instead of their previous off-field antics. Look for Carson Palmer to provide solid plays, and consistency in the receiving line. Rudi Johnson continues to be dependable, but the questions Bengals ticket buyers have is… can the defense hold up? Cincinnati can create turnovers and make big plays, but to continue doing that this season they need solid plays from the linebacker spot. Jeremi Johnson is a Pro Bowl alternate and will continue to be a fantastic blocker into the season. Coach Marvin Lewis needs to keep his team strong on the field and low-key off the field for the Bengals to be contenders – and be able to face the Ravens. If you are looking for Bengals tickets for this exciting season, you are definitely in the right place.
The Cincinnati Bengals were one of the worst franchises in all of sports for a great while. That all changed when head coach Marvin Lewis came into town in time for the 2003 campaign. In his two seasons he’s led the team to a 16-16 record, which is something to be excited for in Cincinnati since the last time the team had gone over .500 in two seasons was over the ’89-’90 seasons where the team finished 17-15. Since 1991, the team hasn’t been able to have a record better than 8-8 and hasn’t made a single playoff appearance, but this year might be the year. The team is loaded with young talented players like Heisman Award winning quarterback Carson Palmer, running back Rudi Johnson, All-Pro wide out Chad Johnson, and linebackers David Pollack and Odell Thurman.
Coach Lewis has his team primed and ready for success and it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibilities for a team like this to travel deep into the playoffs. If the team gets their stuff together, they could find themselves in the Super Bowl. It’s all a matter of how they come together this year.
In the off-season, Lewis took some more steps in creating this team in his own image by making a number of moves to bolster his roster. The team brought in a few defensive linemen to help get some more depth out of that unit. They picked up defensive tackle Bryan Robinson who was formerly with the Miami Dolphins. With the Bengals Robinson will have a starting spot and will be a significant upgrade from the other tackle they had last season. The team also signed defensive end Elton Patterson to a two-year contract; he was formerly with the Jaguars. Patterson won’t have a starting spot waiting for him, like Robinson, but he will be able to provide a much-needed push when they call his number. He will provide great depth for the team.
In the draft, is where Lewis has been making his best and boldest moves since taking over in Cincy. He believes that he needs to have good drafts and bring up players who don’t know any better about the Bengals history of losing. So when they come up they play with the same swagger they played with while they were in college. With his first two picks in the 2005, Draft Lewis selected two linebackers from the same school, Georgia’s David Pollack and Odell Thurman. Pollack was actually a defensive end while at Georgia, but Lewis would like to use his incredible speed and athletic ability in other ways. As a stand up end in the 3-4 scheme Pollack could create an incredible amount of havoc for opposing offenses. Thurman is a prototypical inside linebacker in the 3-4 scheme. He is a good size (6’, 233 lbs) and he can move around the field like crazy with the 4.69 40-yard dash time that he posted at the NFL Combine. This will be a very scary defense to line up against in the
coming years.
The 2008 draft was a considered a good one for the Bengals as they used their # 1 pick (6th overall) to draft Alabama OT Andre Smith and an assortment of offensive and defensive needs. The team also acquired key players such as WR Laveranues Coles, RB Brian Leonard, S Roy Williams and QB J.T. O’Sullivan. Losses for the team included OT Stacy Andrews, WR Glenn Holt, OT Levi Jones, QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, RB Chris Perry, S Dexter Jackson and most importantly to QB Carson Palmer the loss of WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh. If Palmer can remain healthy in a rough and tough AFC North Division they have a good a shot as any to get to the playoffs. Don’t expect HC Marv Lewis to be around if the team underachieves again this season.
