J.P Foschi News

Chris Jennings is getting equal reps with Jamal Lewis. Jake Allen gets a ball thrown his way! Jake Allen? He's the receiver claimed off waivers from Green Bay.

The Cincinnati Bengals improved their record to 8-3 after a 16-7 win over the 1-10 Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis, who has won an AFC championship ring in Pittsburgh and a Super Bowl ring in Baltimore, smiled one of those weary but satisfied AFC North smiles following his teama s completion of its first division sweep with the help of a running back refugee from the run-and-gun AFC West.

The new kid in town, running back Larry Johnson, found a familiar face to have Thanksgiving dinner with last Thursday when tight end and former Chiefs teammate J.P. Foschi invited him to his home.

The Bengals lead the Browns 16-7 in the 4th quarter. The Browns scored a touchdown in the 3rd quarter after Brady Quinn scrambled on a 9-yard run.

At 7-2, these Bengals have gone where no stripes have gone before. A 5-0 division record and a 4-0 road record built with a Woodstock locker room of peace and love.

If you could pluck one play from the Week 10 Bengals-Steelers scrum and stick it in your pocket, it was that fourth-quarter burst around left end, a non-descript nine-yarder from their rookie runner Bernie Scott which kicked off the last Bengals drive.

I think in the greater scheme of things that this week will not determine who is the Division Champ.

The Cincinnati Bengals appear to be taking baby steps inserting rookie third-round draft choice tight end Chase Coffman into the lineup.

The first-place Bengals split up for the bye weekend after Wednesday morninga s practice, but they sounded as together as ever.

Less than a week into training camp, Bengals tight ends coach Jonathan Hayes knew that this year was going to be a work in progress.

The Bengals had a rough drive to win 4 of the first 5 games this season, each time falling behind the opposition because of an interception being returned for a touchdown or numerous penalties that helped kill a drive or keep the oppositions alive, or see players that are expected to catch the ball suddenly forget how to catch it as it sails ...

The Cincinnati Bengals sent out the following release about Carson Palmer: Bengals QB Carson Palmer, continuing his successful comeback after missing 12 games with an elbow injury in 2008, was named today by the NFL as AFC Offensive Player of the Week.

Tight end Dan Coats' problems with drops and ball security have pushed him behind J.P Foschi on the depth chart.

Carson Palmer threw five touchdowns and Cedric Benson had a great game against his former team as the Cincinnati Bengals dominated the Chicago Bears, 45-10. Palmer went 20-for-24 with 233 yards while Benson, who was released by Chicago last season and played against his former squad for the first team, amassed 189 yards on 37 carries with a score ...

Situation: The Bengals face a third-and-7 on the Bears ' 8-yard line in the second quarter, already leading 21-0. Another touchdown and the Bears are done.

CINCINNATI – Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco delivered on his promise to dance the samba Sunday.

Cedric Benson thought he got blackballed by the Chicago Bears, today he got his revenge.

In another sign that the Bengals are working to change their reputation as stubbornly unaggressive, ESPNa s Chris Mortensen reported on Thursday that the team had pursued a trade with Dallas for second-year TE Martellus Bennett.

These Texans are trickier than they look. Bengal players were warned by soothsayers everywhere that a letdown was coming this week.