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Cincinnati Bengals Week 11 Preview: West Coast Warm-Up Against Raiders

It seems too easy to pile on Al Davis and the Oakland Raider Asylum; that bit has done before, so we'll just skip it altogether...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 11 days ago 348 reads 4 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week 10 Recap: Meet the New Boss

There is a luxury suite on the top floor that overlooks the AFC North. It's shiny and comfortable and smells like the Playoffs...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 14 days ago 217 reads 1 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week 10 Preview: Tell Me Why Not.

The way to approach this weekend's epic struggle in Pittsburgh is to ask yourself: “Why won't the Bengals win?” If your response consisted of: a) because they're the Bengals, b) because ...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 18 days ago 531 reads 23 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week 9 Recap: Saw It Coming

This was a game of cognition. On October 27th, I wrote this: I had a dream that night that the Bengals were beating the Ravens 17-0 at home...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 21 days ago 212 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week 9 Preview: Too Many Aces

In the backroom of a shady saloon just on the edge of town, the Ravens await. They sit there hunkered over a card-table with a half-bottle of cheap rum and an old, shaggy dog named Cleveland, curled up and sleeping at their feet...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 25 days ago 166 reads 0 comments
The NFL's High-Water Mark: Rome Is Falling

It appears the NFL has finally out-priced itself. The first-place Bengals, fresh off of a near-perfect game against the Bears, are still 4,500 tickets away from selling out this Sunday against the Ravens...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 27 days ago 186 reads 2 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week Seven Recap: Dreamin' Big

We Bengal fans are doubters; it comes with the program. Like veteran circus freaks, we've been kicked around for a long time and have trust issues with management...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about about 1 month ago 218 reads 1 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week Seven Preview: Ethereal Smack Talk

Somewhere in the cosmos, football demigods Paul Brown and George Halas spent the last few days arm wrestling and taking cheap digs at one another in preparation for this week's game. They're still at it; purple-faced and winded, but unrelenting in spirit

Written by B. Clifton Burke about about 1 month ago 154 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week Six Recap: Duped!

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

Written by B. Clifton Burke about about 1 month ago 157 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week Six Preveiw: The Emotional Trap

Now that the Bengals are perched atop the AFC North standings and feeling good about themselves after an “emotional” win, one face springs to mind when looking ahead to the next game against ...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about about 1 month ago 236 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week Five Recap: Swaying the Skeptics

On the opening Monday night game of the 2007 season, the Bengals beat the Ravens at Paul Brown Stadium, 27-20; that was the last time Cincinnati could agree that their team was a contender...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about about 1 month ago 242 reads 1 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week 5 Preview: The Bungles Nevermore

Since their arrival, the Baltimore Ravens have always been an oversized group of mongrels who produced wins in the most blue-collared fashion; slowly and painfully rolling over their opposition...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about about 1 month ago 142 reads 4 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week Four Recap: The Escape From the Lake

There is a lesson to be learned from all of this: never underestimate the will of a trapped animal, or in this case, a trapped color...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about about 1 month ago 170 reads 0 comments
Bengals-Browns: Into the Brown Abyss

Cleveland Brown Stadium may as well be perched along the River Styx these days with Charon himself there to escort Browns fans into the NFL netherworld...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 228 reads 1 comments
The Coming of Age of the Cincinnati Bengals in Week Three

It's never been better to be wrong. Cincinnati is still elated after a thrilling fourth-quarter comeback against the loathsome Steelers on Sunday in a game that truly typified the attitude of Marvin Lewis' newest breed of Bengal...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 377 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week 3 Preview: The Annual Pittsburgh Steeler Invasion

Dick LeBeau and his pack of wild attack dogs float down the Ohio River in a weather-beaten, black frigate this weekend looking to pillage and plunder the first football team it comes across...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 464 reads 2 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week Two Recap: Like a Sack Of Wrenches

Marvin Lewis should feel more at ease with the team he has reassembled; it's the kind he likes. The Bengals caught Green Bay with a surprise left hook to the jaw on Sunday, leaving the Packers battered, bewildered and beaten on their own turf...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 209 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week Two Preview: Cheese Whiz

The last time I remember the Bengals playing a regular season game at Lambeau Field, Brett Favre made his Packer debut and led Green Bay to a fourth quarter comeback win...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 212 reads 2 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Working Out the Kinks

Last Sunday, Marvin Lewis and his coaches stood in front of a hulking object, covered in a tarp inside of Paul Brown Stadium. A crowd gathered around it and the tarp was removed...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 134 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week 1 Play-By-Play Analysis

Roy Williams prevents huge run on first play by Buckhalter. Geathers on nice run stuff. Marshall drops screen pass No pass rush, nice coverage by Crocker. First play of the year is a run up the middle for no gain...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 91 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week One Recap: Stuff Happens

After the stunned silence and the eruption of outrage, after the philosophical musings about the mysterious ways of the universe and after letting it go with a sigh and a beer, we can talk about ...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 145 reads 0 comments
Cincinnati Bengals Week One Preview: Early Fireworks

If the two main points of emphasis for the Bengals this offseason were improving the running game and the pass rush, then the Broncos are the perfect test to gauge how successful those two efforts have been...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 288 reads 3 comments
Marvin Tries Again: Revenge Of The Myth

The team that will follow Marvin Lewis out of the tunnel and onto the field against the Broncos on Sunday, marks the coach's second attempt at constructing a successful NFL roster...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 579 reads 0 comments
At The Heart of a Bengals Fan

It's ready. A fresh 16-game Bengal season, bloomed and fully ripe, rests inside our cable boxes waiting to be slowly and painstakingly devoured, bit by blissful bit...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 45 reads 0 comments
More Andre Smith Humor: Lard Knocks

Andre Smith is so fat, the bones in his feet fracture under the weight of his enormous girth. The rookie broke his foot just two days after ending a lengthy holdout during a non-contact drill...

Written by B. Clifton Burke about 2 months ago 649 reads 4 comments

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B. Clifton Burke Article Archive

Cincinnati Bengals Week 11 Preview: West Coast Warm-Up Against Raiders

Cincinnati Bengals Week 10 Recap: Meet the New Boss

Cincinnati Bengals Week 10 Preview: Tell Me Why Not.

Cincinnati Bengals Week 9 Recap: Saw It Coming

Cincinnati Bengals Week 9 Preview: Too Many Aces

The NFL's High-Water Mark: Rome Is Falling

Cincinnati Bengals Week Seven Recap: Dreamin' Big

Cincinnati Bengals Week Seven Preview: Ethereal Smack Talk

Cincinnati Bengals Week Six Recap: Duped!

Cincinnati Bengals Week Six Preveiw: The Emotional Trap

Cincinnati Bengals Week Five Recap: Swaying the Skeptics

Cincinnati Bengals Week 5 Preview: The Bungles Nevermore

Cincinnati Bengals Week Four Recap: The Escape From the Lake

Bengals-Browns: Into the Brown Abyss

The Coming of Age of the Cincinnati Bengals in Week Three

Cincinnati Bengals Week 3 Preview: The Annual Pittsburgh Steeler Invasion

Cincinnati Bengals Week Two Recap: Like a Sack Of Wrenches

Cincinnati Bengals Week Two Preview: Cheese Whiz

Cincinnati Bengals Working Out the Kinks

Cincinnati Bengals Week 1 Play-By-Play Analysis

Cincinnati Bengals Week One Recap: Stuff Happens

Cincinnati Bengals Week One Preview: Early Fireworks

Marvin Tries Again: Revenge Of The Myth

At The Heart of a Bengals Fan

More Andre Smith Humor: Lard Knocks

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