Bengals tidbits

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Cincy

Bengals defense gets a boost
DT Myers added; Johnson signs 1-year deal
BY MARK CURNUTTE | MCURNUTTE@ENQUIRER.COM

The Bengals bolstered their 30th-ranked defense Friday when they announced the signings of two players who figure to play a lot of snaps in 2007.
Defensive tackle Michael Myers, who started 16 games for Denver in 2006, signed a two-year contract with Cincinnati. He should add experience and run-stopping ability to the rotation at tackle, teaming with projected starters Sam Adams and John Thornton and promising second-year player Domata Peko.

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Official Bengals Draft Thread


I would love to see Bengals fans unite and get some chatter about the draft up and going. Feel free to post your choices for the Bengals pick(s), trade possibilities, whatever.

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Cincy

Concern over cornerbacks
Bengals' search for a shutdown DB could start up again
BY MARK CURNUTTE | MCURNUTTE@ENQUIRER.COM


As the draft approaches and the Bengals are poised to draft a cornerback on Day 1 for the third time in four years, the question can be asked:
What about Keiwan?
Keiwan Ratliff was the Bengals top second-round pick, No. 49 overall, in 2004. Yet, based on playing time and the locker room undercurrent, Ratliff appears to have fallen out of favor as a cornerback with defensive coaches.

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Cincy

Linebacker Miller signs for one season
BY MARK CURNUTTE | MCURNUTTE@ENQUIRER.COM

The Bengals signed their fifth and final restricted free agent Tuesday, bringing linebacker Caleb Miller back into the fold for one season. Miller signed the one-year, restricted free agent tender of $850,000.
Previously, the team had signed restricted free agents in linebacker Landon Johnson, cornerback Greg Brooks, punter Kyle Larson and offensive lineman Stacy Andrews to one-year deals.
Miller is expected to compete with Ahmad Brooks for the starting middle linebacker job this coming season.

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Cincy

Bengals doing less with less
Adding personnel staff would cost dollars, but make sense

On Draft Day, the Bengals have what everyone else has: a board of names crammed with more information on each potential draftee than the CIA has on Castro. They can tell you how long it takes Darrelle Revis to run 40 yards, what Aaron Ross leaps vertically (tall buildings in a single bound!) and whether Michael Griffin prefers Skippy or Jif.
They have all the data and most of the intangibles. What they don't have is enough eyes, ears and opinions. They lack numbers. This hurts them more in the pro personnel area than it will today. But it hurts today, too. Yet Mike Brown likes his personnel department the way it's always been. Little.

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Cincy

Bookends at cornerback
Hall and last year's No. 1 pick, Joseph, should help pass 'D'
BY MARK CURNUTTE | MCURNUTTE@ENQUIRER.COM

In the first 38 years as a franchise, the Bengals did not draft a true cornerback in the first round.
In selecting Michigan's Leon Hall with the 18th overall pick Saturday, the Bengals now have taken first-round cornerbacks two years in a row.
Bengals coaches would not anoint Hall an immediate starter, but he is expected to contribute right away on defense and special teams. He joins Johnathan Joseph, the first pick in 2006, as the cornerbacks of the future.

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Cincy

He should offer a changeup to Rudi
BY KEVIN KELLY | KKELLY@ENQUIRER.COM

During a recent phone conversation with Marvin Lewis, Kenny Irons implored the Bengals head coach not to forget about him on draft day.
The Auburn tailback, twice named to the All-Southeastern Conference first team, was following the NFL Draft with friends and family inside a trailer at Dacula (Ga.) High School when he got his wish Saturday evening. The Bengals selected Irons in the second round with the 49th overall pick.
"Oh, I'm excited," he said. "I'm trying to smile to hold my tears back. It's great. I'm loving every minute of it."

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