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Green Bay Packers at Arizona Cardinals Preview

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4:40 PM ET, January 10, 2010 U of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ

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The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers opted to take different approaches to last week’s meaningless regular-season finale.

This week will prove which approach worked best.

The teams will return to University of Phoenix Stadium for the second straight Sunday as [...]

Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots Preview

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1:00 PM ET, January 10, 2010 Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA

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Commissioner Roger Goodell may be exploring ways to get teams to keep their starters in games that have little meaning. He might have a tough time getting the New England Patriots to cooperate.

After losing Wes Welker to injury in an essentially [...]

Bengals still missing WR Henry in a lot of ways

Associated Press

Cincinnati Bengals Wide receiver Chris Henry catches the football for a touchdown.

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CINCINNATI — Four pairs of cleats are neatly arranged on a lower ledge. The tiger-striped helmet hangs from a black hook on the left side of the wooden cubicle. T-shirts are bunched on hangers in the back. Shoulder pads [...]

Jets' top-ranked defense feels disrespected

Associated Press

New York Jets' Dwight Lowery, right, celebrates with teammate Kerry Rhodes after making an interception during the second quarter of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The New York Jets have the NFL‘s top-ranked defense, yet they keep hearing about what they haven’t done [...]

Slumping Bengals need playoff turnaround vs. Jets

Bengals WR Chad Ochocinco, left, and QB Carson Palmer host the Jets on Saturday in a wild-card matchup.

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CINCINNATI — Last Sunday game between the Cincinnati Bengals and New York Jets was disheartened for all Bengals fans and Players. But the Bengals intend to make it a rematch, not a replay.

With the [...]

Bengals' Double A-Gap blitz package turns defense of nobodies into elite unit

Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer’s penchant for placing two linebackers into both A-Gaps — the areas between the center and guards — has foiled opponents all season.

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CINCINNATI — Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer has confused quarterbacks, confounded offensive linemen and crippled play-callers with an imaginative scheme that rarely fails.

When Zimmer unloads [...]

Cowboys, Bengals look to break through

By: Barry Wilner, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game in more than a decade. The Bengals haven’t won one in nearly two decades. That can change, they hope, in Saturday’s wild-card round.

Both get familiar foes: Dallas takes on NFC East rival Philadelphia for the third time since early November, [...]