Almost. The Bengals almost managed to make it one whole month into the 2010 offseason without someone getting arrested.
Almost.
Unfortunately, last night linebacker Rey Maualuga hit two parked cars and a parking meter while tooling around trashed with a couple girls.
“Subject had slurred speech, blood shot, watery eyes and he was unsteady on his feet,” the officer wrote.
TMZ has photos of the crash and Rey getting tested here.
What is there to say that hasn’t been said a million times before? Memo to Rey: you signed a $4.66 million deal last July. You can afford a cab.
In other Bengals news, the team [...]

Oklahoma TE Jermaine Gresham remains the player most-mocked to the Cincinnati Bengals in this, the second installment of our annual Bengals Mock Draft Big Board. But that’s only because the mockosphere can’t settle on a wide receiver with the 21st pick. Led by Oklahoma’s Dez Bryant and Illinois’ Arrelios Benn, the wideouts collectively draw twice as many votes as Gresham.
Assembled with the help of Walter’s excellent-as-usual mock draft database, I went through drafts updated since the Wild Card game for this update. The results:

Bengals Mock Draft Big Board

Pick
Position
School
Votes
Change

Jermaine Gresham
TE
Oklahoma
25
-2

Dez Bryant
WR
Oklahoma State
14
+11

Arrelios Benn
WR
Illinois
13
+7

Damien Williams
WR
USC
11
+2

Golden Tate
WR
Notre Dame
10
+2

Brandon LaFell
WR
LSU
8
-2

Taylor Mays
FS
Southern California
7
+4

Earl Thomas
SS
Texas
4
+2

Brian Price
DT
UCLA
2
+1

Carlos [...]

Kickers facing the New York Jets are now 0-for-5 in the playoffs after San Diego’s Nate Kaeding missed three field goals to help put Not So Sexy-Rexy Ryan in the AFC Championship Game. If you’re like me, you’re left wondering what might have been if Shayne Graham could have put two – or maybe just one? – field goals through in the first round. Alas, Bengals fans we must move on.
So now, I’ll steal a page from Woodrow Wilson and offer my 14 points heading into the offseason.
1. This team overachieved. Any sane fan would have gladly taken a 10-6 record, [...]

Confounding his critics once again, Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown moved swiftly in the wake of last week’s Wild Card loss to re-sign defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer.
Reportedly, it is a three-year deal.
Keeping Zim was easily the Bengals’ No. 1 priority this offseason. Prior to his arrival, the defense had not finished better than 19th in the Marvin Lewis era. But under Zimmer, the defense ranked 12th in 2008 and 4th in 2009. That No. 4 finish is the best for a Cincinnati defense since 1983 (1), and the last two years represent the best consecutive defensive finishes since the Bengals [...]

With victories by the Baltimore Ravens and Arizona Cardinals (and, unfortunately, the New York Jets), the Cincinnati Bengals secured the 21st pick in the 2010 draft.
The 21st selection gives them the highest pick of any playoff team.
Some guys I like, in no particular order.

Cincinnati Bengals franchise player Shayne Graham missed two critical field goals en route to a 24-14 loss to the New York Jets in the Wild Card round at PBS. Graham was by no means the only striped goat of the game, but his very makeable 35 and 28 yard misses validated the widespread impression among fans that he’s choker. Graham has almost certainly played his last game as a Bengal.
Shayne wasn’t the only one providing ammo to his critics tonight. Offensive coordinator Sideshow Bob underutilized RB Cedric Benson early on. Despite the fact that Benson was en fuego all night, [...]

Who-Dey! Less than two hours to go until the Cincinnati Bengals and New York Jets kick off Wild Card Weekend at Paul Brown Stadium. The Enquirer’s Joe Reedy tweets that it’s 24 degrees on the field, where QB Carson Palmer is warming up without gloves, per C. Trent, and WR Chad Ochocinco is running around with no apparent knee issues.
RB Larry Johnson is a surprise inactive against the Jets. He was suffering from tendinitis in his knee earlier this week. Other inactives include DT Orien Harris and WR Jerome Simpson.
I’m headed out to a playoff party in about an hour, [...]

Going for something rum-based myself, but to each their own…

NFL Films’ Steve Sabol tells Bengals.com’s Geoff Hobson that the team’s run to the playoffs has “broken the jinx” and that as a result, two NFL owners have approached him about being featured on Hard Knocks next August. Moreover, the 2009 iteration with the Bengals is up for the series’ first-ever Peabody Award.
“We owe a lot to the Bengals. It’s like breaking the Sports Illustrated jinx,” Sabol said. “They proved you can be the subject of that kind of show and it’s not a distraction, or an obstacle. Now when anyone turns me down, I can just show them [...]

It’s every man (and woman and child) for himself as Bengals fans race for the exits in the wake of the team’s 37-0 loss to the New York Jets last night. A fickle sports media is already writing Cincinnati off, and many of the team’s fans are following suit.

This is silly. Yes, it was an ugly game — but that’s what happens when one team (in this case, the Bengals) has no interest in winning. The Bengals gained almost nothing with a victory last night, except the “opportunity” to go home and be faced with a short week to prepare [...]