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In a way, they are like how Indy was, built around one player.

Tedy Bruschi publicly called for Goodell to resign on NFL Live today in a fiery reaction to todays conference. I know Teddy Bruschi isn't the most popular guy aroung her but damn I like how he busted out on Goodell. In case you missed NFL Live http://www.sportsgri...ls-resignation/ I used this site cause its the only video of the press conference reaction i found.

Zimmer endures rocky beginning to coaching tenure By JON KRAWCZYNSKI (AP Sports Writer) 1 hour ago AP - Sports MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Mike Zimmer had waited so long and interviewed so many times to be an NFL head coach that he almost turned down the Minnesota Vikings' request to talk this offseason. Now that he is finally in the top job, it hasn't taken the longtime defensive coordinator long to discover that being a head coach is about so much more than actual coaching. Zimmer's Vikings have been in the eye of the NFL crisis storm this week after star running back Adrian Peterson was benched, then reinstated, then told to stay away while he addresses child abuse charges in Texas. Suspended receiver Jerome Simpson was cut when a new arrest was revealed and Zimmer spent the week answering questions about abuse, discipline, fatherhood and morality while getting his team ready for a game at New Orleans. It's been a crash course for the first-time head coach, who is trying to keep a rattled team focused in the aftermath of so much controversy. ''I don't know that you're ever prepared for all the things that happen. At least, I wasn't,'' Zimmer said. ''You deal with each one of them, you go on, you get back to work and get going.'' Zimmer has been a coach in the NFL since 1994, with 13 seasons spent in the pressure cooker with the Dallas Cowboys and another six years in Cincinnati, where the Bengals routinely had to deal with players who ran afoul of the law. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/zimmer-endures-rocky-beginning-coaching-204210958--nfl.html

Game on TV; SI on why Bengals 1; Bleak for Burfict; Green limited; Nugent reflects; Double coverage Posted 10 hours ago Geoff Hobson Editor Bengals.com Update: 7 p.m. Ticket sales for Sunday’s 1 p.m. game against Tennessee at Paul Brown Stadium have reached the threshold to clear the game for live television coverage in the Bengals home market, Channel 12 in Cincinnati, Channel 7 in Dayton, Ohio, and Channel 27 in Lexington, Ky. While the Bengals have accepted an NFL option to have blackouts lifted this season with 85 percent of non-premium tickets sold, good seats on all three levels of PBS remain. They can be purchased by calling the Bengals Ticket Hotline during business hours at 513-621-8383 or toll free at 866-621-8383. Tickets also can be purchased at any time through Bengals.com. NO. 1: For all those in Bengaldom bitter at the national sports punditry’s lukewarm reaction to the 2-0 start, SI.com has come to the rescue and made the Bengals No. 1 in its power ranking for what the magazine says is the first time in history. The Bengals get the next two teams in the rankings at PBS later in the season. The No. 2 Broncos are here in a Monday night game on Dec. 22 and the No. 3 Panthers are in Oct. 12. Seattle and Philadelphia round out the top five. http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Game-on-TV-SI-on-why-Bengals-1-Bleak-for-Burfict-Green-limited-Nugent-reflects-Double-coverage/26cb2e0b-b1f9-4ce5-a8ef-eba5224dafc7

Quarterbacks want to be like ... Dalton?September, 18, 2014Sep 186:30PM ETBy Coley Harvey | ESPN.com CINCINNATI -- The day Jay Gruden foresaw more than three years ago has finally arrived. Quarterbacks want to be like Andy Dalton. Cue the soundtrack to an early 1990s commercial anthem: "Sometimes I dream... that he is me..." In this story by ESPN colleague John Keim on Wednesday, we found out that Kirk Cousins is doing something some other quarterbacks might soon admit to doing. He's trying to play like the Cincinnati Bengals' fourth-year quarterback, who has his team off to a 2-0 start and has started to prove that he might be worth every penny of the six-year, $115 million contract extension he signed back in August. Mark Zerof/USA TODAY SportsBengals quarterback Andy Dalton is playing well enough to be emulated by other NFL quarterbacks.Built similarly to Dalton and blessed with athleticism and mobility a lot like Dalton's, Cousins is hoping that Gruden, the Bengals' former offensive coordinator who now is Washington's head coach, can get him to taste some of the same success that Dalton has experienced at the start of his career. http://espn.go.com/blog/cincinnati-bengals/post/_/id/11351/bengals-andy-dalton-kirk-cousins-quarterbacks-want-to-be

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No kidding around with Bengals run game Posted 54 minutes ago Geoff Hobson Editor Bengals.com Giovani Bernard, that 22-year-old geezer, shook his head as he recalled rookie running back Jeremy Hill’s dance after his first NFL touchdown in Sunday’s 24-10 victory over the Falcons in the Paul Brown Stadium opener. “I’m a low key guy. He’s a young stallion,” Bernard said. “We’ll figure out something. I’m the wise old man.” It doesn’t take a withered sage to figure out the Bengals have their most dynamic pair of running backs since, dare we breathe it, James Brooks and Elbert Woods before these kids were born. Or maybe when Corey Dillon was on his way out and Rudi Johnson was on his way up in head coach Marvin Lewis’ first season of 2003. Whatever it is, Bernard put on another scintillating YouTube job with 169 all-purpose yards while Hill banged away for 74 yards on 15 carries. It’s not exactly “Thunder and Lightning,” since there are times Bernard can grind it, like when he bowled for a four-yard touchdown run, and Hill can juke it, like he did for 18 yards after a catch when he made estimable safety William Moore miss in the middle of the field. But “Fire and Rain,” give the Bengals the final, crucial elements they’ve needed for a well-rounded offense. And in the hands of offensive coordinator Hue Jackson, it won’t be shoved to the backburner. With their two starting wide receivers and two of their tight ends shelved, it was time for Jackson to display the personality he’s always on his players to show. http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/No-kidding-around-with-Bengals-run-game/5982aedd-e35b-4ef0-9a64-f661b572ed6f

Bengal Morning Takes: Atop the AFC NorthSeptember, 15, 2014Sep 158:00AM ETBy Coley Harvey | ESPN.com CINCINNATI -- It's still early. Very early. But the Cincinnati Bengals have many reasons to feel good about the defense of their division title after two weeks. For starters, they are one of four AFC teams with 2-0 records. If the Eagles beat the Colts in this week's Monday night game, that would make the Bengals one of seven teams in the entire league with 2-0 marks. Of those seven, only three, the Panthers, Broncos and Bengals, were playoff teams last season. According to our friends at ESPN Stats & Information, since 1990, teams that start a season with a 3-0 record have a 75.2 percent chance of making the playoffs. So the Bengals have to be feeling good about their postseason aspirations if they can breeze into the Week 4 bye undefeated. To get to 3-0, the Bengals will have to extend their regular-season home winning streak to 11 games next week when Tennessee comes to town. If they win that game, the Bengals will have set a new franchise record for consecutive regular-season home wins. If they continue to roll the way they have through these first two weeks, maybe they will have a chance at redemption from last season's playoff loss by hosting another postseason game this season. http://espn.go.com/blog/cincinnati-bengals/post/_/id/11219/bengals-nfl-afc-north-standings-morning-takes

Doc: Bengals may be even better than we've seen so far Paul Daugherty, pdaugherty@enquirer.com 9:09 p.m. EDT September 14, 2014 (Photo: The Enquirer/Jeff Swinger) To recap: The Bengals lost their best offensive player early in the first quarter Sunday, and their best defensive player shortly after that. They missed three field goals, committed seven penalties. . . and had the Atlanta Falcons beaten by the middle of the third quarter. When A.J. Green gimped off the field with a bad toe, Andy Dalton was without three receivers – Green, Marvin Jones and Tyler Eifert – who last year contributed 188 catches, 2,583 yards and 23 touchdowns to the cause. That bothered Dalton so much, he threw for 253 yards and a TD, and had a QB Rating of 116.6. Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan came into this game having passed for a Falcons franchise record 448 yards last week. He looked like he was working in a hall closet Sunday. And he didn't even have Vontaze Burfict to worry about. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/columnists/paul-daugherty/2014/09/14/paul-daugherty-cincinnati-bengals/15640445/