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Marvin Lewis has molded the 2009 Bengals into a team that reflects his personality.

The same truck that ran over the Ravens in October rumbled through Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday and flattened them again.

BENGALS COACH MARVIN LEWIS Initial comments: "Today was a hard-fought win. Looking back on it, offensively we got off to a great start and were able to put points on the board early by converting third downs and converting on defense.

Sunday's matchup between the 5-2 Cincinnati Bengals and the 4-3 Baltimore Ravens has the potential to be one of the best games to watch in Week 9. Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer is arguably coming off one of his best performances of his career, after throwing for 233 yards and five touchdowns against the Chicago Bears.

Analyzing the NFL is often about glamorizing the mundane and intellectualizing the simple.

A Carson Palmer had a career best 146.7 rating and threw for 233 yards and five touchdowns in what was his best game since the 2007 Week 2 shootout against Cleveland.

Thanks to Carson Palmer, Cedric Benson, Chad Ochocinco and pals, the Cincinnati Bengals made the Chicago Bears look like nothing close to Monsters of the Midway at Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday.

The Bears' offense never stood a chance at the start of Sunday's game at Paul Brown Stadium.

And now, stay tuned for "Who Wants to be a Midwestern Playoff Team?" On one side, ladies and gentlemen, we have the Chicago Bears - who dropped their opener, won three straight to refuel long dormant postseason chatter, then proceeded to lose a seven-point primetime decision in Atlanta after surrendering the decisive touchdown with three minutes to ...

With a running game huffing and puffing for 87 yards on 31 carries - a 2.8-yard average - the Texans knew they had to throw to win at Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday.

Bengals cornerback Johnathan Joseph says the team's flaws in the 28-17 loss to the Houston Texans are "very correctable." Now the Bengals have to change whatever they did last Sunday to make sure the Chicago Bears this Sunday can't carve them up the way the Texans did.

A strong running attack, aggressive defense, and late-game heroics by the offense have been qualities that earned the Bengals first place in the AFC North.A Unfortunately for Marvin Lewis and company, none of those were prevalent today.

For three weeks, the bane of fans' existence was the trials and travails at long snapper for the Bengals.

The Bengals have shut down a veritable who's who of top receivers this season. Packers WR Greg Jennings , ex-Browns WR Braylon Edwards and Ravens WR Derrick Mason were all held without a catch by the Cincinnati secondary.

Cedric Benson leads the league in yards and carries . While he does like to run between the tackles, the yards might be tough to come by this week with DeMeco Ryans and Brian Cushing at the linebackers.

We get reams of information from the Bengals and the NFL every week. Most of it will make you dizzy.

The Bengal banner means Bengals coverage Who Dey! CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati Bengals' secondary have an impressive resume of star receivers they have shut down so far this season.

Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer began the week rallying his guys by telling them that the team that plays the best defense is going to win Sundaya s AFC North showdown in Baltimore.

The Bengals beat the Ravens yesterday, grabbing sole possession of first place in the tough AFC North.

If Limas Sweed holds onto the ball in the end zone or Joe Flacco hits his wide-open receiver down the sideline, nobody is talking about the Cincinnati Bengals as a surprise team.