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What is it with the NFL? It is so careful about publicity and then plays minds games with the Ocho Cinco.

All Chad wanted to do was change his name to his number and go by Chad Ocho Cinco. The NFL objected on the grounds that they already had tons of jerseys with the name Johnson on them and the number 85. Thus the vaunted NFL marketing machine would be thwarted.

What's my name?

Finally with an official name change and a year to digest it all, the NFL relented and will now have jerseys with Ochocinco on them. Huh? Ochocinco and not Ocho Cinco?

The league has agreed to let him wear his new name this year, but it will be rendered as “Ochocinco” because that’s how he wrote it when he submitted his name-change form in Florida.

“It’s his legal name,” AFC information manager Corry Rush said Thursday.

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They may not win a lot of games, but it is never dull in Bengal land.

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It has to be a comedy special when HBO and the NFL put the Cincinnati Bengals on the Hard Knocks show. The Bengals may not be worst team, but they are one of the cheapest and most dysfunctional. Do you know they do not even use a general manager? That would only be a good thing if your GM of choice was Matt recently hired by ESPN Millen.

What can the NFL be thinking?

It will be very personality-driven, given the team’s lack of success and national profile. The Bengals (4-11-1) were so uninteresting to the NFL’s schedule makers that they got no prime-time games this season.

HBO wasn’t put off. Even though the Bengals have had only one winning record since 1991, they could provide some interesting subplots for the five-episode program that begins Aug. 12 and airs each week:

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Ocho Cinco to be an HBO star!

Well, we have all been waiting for Ocho Cinco to have some sort of outlet besides football, since apparently football is not doing it for him.

NFL Films can count on spending time with another flamboyant receiver, although it will be interesting to see what Chad Ocho Cinco does in the spotlight. After failing to get the team to trade him last year, he kept a low profile during the season — a pleasing development to Lewis.

Now, his love of the spotlight will be tested.

“Ocho Cinco will be in this show, don’t worry about that,” Greenburg said.

This could turn out to be the funniest or saddest show on cable.

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Rey Maualuga used to play for USC and was the middle linebacker in an awesome group of linebackers at that school. In fact the other two linebackers went in the first round, but Rey was available twice to my Lions and they passed on him. Why? Well, it is the Lions and there was talk that Rey misses some tackles and is a little bit overrated to be first round material.

Eventually Rey went in the second round.

Brian Cushing, Clay Matthews and Maualuga were expected to become the first trio of players from the same unit to be picked in the first round. Instead, Maualuga waited through the entire first round before the Cincinnati Bengals selected him in the second round with the 38th pick.
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Check out the Rey Maualuga dance for Erin Andrews on YouTube.

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Ocho Cinco is a happy Bengal?

This is a little perplexing. On the one hand there is a somewhat happy Ocho in Cincinnati and they are failing to win and Mr. Cinco is failing to produce. Believe me on that second one, because he is on the bench of my Fantasy Football team.

So is a non-producing happy Ocho Cinco better than a disgruntled producing Ocho Cinco?

And just how did he get so happy?

“Donovan was a big influence,” Ocho Cinco told reporters on Wednesday. “[He] really is one of the reasons why I really turned myself around and looked at my situation as more of a positive outlook and just thinking about all the people that would love to play this game, you know?

“He took me in that direction, instead of thinking about, ‘Oh, I’m tired of losing and I don’t want to be here anymore,’ but just thinking about, ‘Man, a lot of people wish they were in your shoes just to have the ability to play in the NFL.’ That kind of turned me around, and that’s why I’ve been as positive as I have been this year, and even though we’re losing, man, I’ve just been plugging away.”

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For the sake of my Fantasy Football team let’s learn to be unhappy. How about it?

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The football has just floated away from Rudi Johnson lately

Two years ago my Fantasy Football team had Rudi Johnson and Larry Johnson for the running backs. It was a lethal combination that led to a regular season crown and a trip to the playoffs. We won’t discuss what happened after that.

And it is my guess that the two Johnsons don’t want to discuss what has happened since either.

Larry Johnson has watched his Kansas City team deteriorate and miss the playoffs while he fought off injuries and lack of carries. Most likely Larry will never be the same.

Rudi also fought off injuries only his injury problems continued this spring.

Now Rudi gets cut.

The 28-year-old Johnson missed most of camp because of a hamstring injury, making him expendable. Chris Perry, a first-round pick in 2004, moves into the starting job after having a healthy preseason.

Johnson ran for a club-record 1,458 yards in 2005. Hamstring problems limited him to nine starts and a 2.9-yard average last season.

“I’ve seen Rudi practice very few times, and cut it loose very few times,” Lewis said. “I thought he had a great spring and was doing everything, but unfortunately, he seemed to suffer from the hamstring.”

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Rudi Johnson has always been a steady back, not much of a receiver but a grinding runner.

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As if the Cincinnati Bunglers needed any more bad publicity.

The Cincinnati Bengals receiver has legally changed his name to Chad Javon Ocho Cinco in Broward County, Fla., a switch that became official this week. Johnson, who lives in Miami, didn’t return a message left on his cell phone Friday night.

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It appears the decision is not too popular.

Two years ago, Johnson gave himself the moniker — a reference in Spanish to his No. 85 — and put it on the back of his uniform before a game. Quarterback Carson Palmer ripped it off before the kickoff. After the season, coach Marvin Lewis — who dislikes Johnson’s attention-getting stunts — referred to the receiver as “Ocho Psycho.”

Is Ocho Cinco wacked out or what?

While Cincinnati may not quite have the talent for the Super Bowl, Ocho is not helping things any. He recently held out to be traded and since then has had injury problems.

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Chad Johnson may be out of uniform until the NFL regular season begins

Chad Johnson went out for the pass and ended up on his left shoulder. Brian Kelly, of the Lions, intercepted the pass.

Chad was hurt. They called it a sprained shoulder.

“We’ll be able to treat it conservatively, and he’ll have to get his strength back in it,” Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis. “It came out and went right back in on the field.”

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The Bengals have even more problems as shown in the loss to the Lions.

Starter Carson Palmer was sacked once and hit four other times in the first quarter alone.

“We were a little bit out of sync in the passing game early,” Lewis said.

Palmer ended up with one of his worst lines – preseason or regular season – 6-for-13 passing for 50 yards, one interception – and a passer rating of 24.5.
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A little out of sync?

The Bengals have a lot of work to do or this season will be a season of failure.

Cinci got bigger on the offensive line and hopes this will help Rudi run and Carson have more time to throw. It did not work in this game. Rudi was out with hamstring problems and Carson got knocked around.

The Bengals unveiled the much-anticipated huge “Jurassic Line,” with starting right guard Bobbie Williams moving to center in place of starter Eric Ghiaciuc. Stacy Andrews slid from right tackle to right guard, and Willie Anderson was inserted as the right tackle. The left side remained the same: Levi Jones at tackle, Andrew Whitworth at guard.

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Forget about Chris Henry coming to your town to play football. The talented wide receiver that used to play for the Bengals is on indefinite suspension.

The Bengals released Henry on April 3 after he was arrested for the fifth time. Henry is scheduled for trial June 24 in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on charges of assault and criminal damaging. A man accused Henry of punching him in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle.

Henry had received permission from the judge to try out with other NFL teams, but the suspension puts an end to that.

If Henry is acquitted, the suspension could be lifted, Henry’s agent Marvin Frazier said. If Henry is convicted, he faces at least a one-season suspension under the league’s conduct policy. Henry was suspended for the first eight games last season for violating the policy, his second suspension from the league during his three-year career.

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Just where will Chad Johnson be when it comes time to get down to business?

That is the question, now, isn’t it?

Hmm, Carson Palmer seems to know and that kind of bothers Chad Johnson.

Palmer this morning told reporters in the Bengals’ Paul Brown Stadium locker room that he had spoken via phone with the disgruntled wide receiver, who assured Palmer that “he’ll be there when he has to,” Palmer said.

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Chad Johnson - the Bengals will never find me under here

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Chad Johnson heard about this on the web and had this response.

“I want to make this very clear,” Johnson told Clayton in a story now posted on the ESPN website. “I don’t know where he got that. I made no assertion to Carson that I would do that. Nothing has changed from what I’ve been saying for three months that I don’t want to play for the Bengals. … I want to be traded before the draft, and if that doesn’t happen, I want to be traded as soon as possible. I don’t intend on reporting to anything.”

Now that the Bengals have lost third receiver Chris Henry, keeping Chad Johnson becomes more important.

Is it just me or is Carson Palmer surrounded by a bunch of nut jobs in Cincinnati?

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Hey, you’re a Bengal.

5 arrests.

What is the big deal?

Chris Henry Cincinnati Bengals or used to be anyway

Evidently, Chris Henry forgot about the Bengal 5 and out policy.

Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry lost his job while in jail awaiting arraignment on assault charges on Thursday.

The Bengals cut him after his fifth arrest since 2005.

An attorney for Henry, 24, entered not guilty pleas for him after Henry was accused of punching an 18-year-old man in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle.

Municipal Court Judge Bernie Bouchard set bond at $51,000 on charges of misdemeanor assault and criminal damaging. Noting Henry’s previous arrests involving drugs, guns and alcohol, the judge called Henry “a one-man crime wave.” He ordered electronic monitoring if Henry makes bail.

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Seems like Chris was just one of the club.

Under the NFL’s tough new policy, Henry could face further suspensions even if he is not convicted of the latest charges. The Bengals were among the worst offenders in recent years, with 10 players arrested in a 14-month span from April 2006 and June 2007.

Guess Carson Palmer will have to just throw to the other two talented receivers, Chad Johnson and T.J. Houshmandzadeh.

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