"I am excited about that to say the least. Some of it is to prove ... there was so much negative talk there. Getting the win that will week will be important for me in particular to clean the slate. Squeaky clean," Benson said.

--T.J. Houshmandzadeh has left the Bengals, but he remains the team's NFLPA player representative. Both he and Dexter Jackson, who is the alternate, will be in Hawaii next week when the union selects a new Executive Director to replace the late Gene Upshaw. Jackson will become the player rep once training camp begins.

--Linebacker Dhani Jones' series, "Dhani Tackles the Globe" begins on The Travel Channel on March 16 at 9 p.m. Jones filmed six episodes during last year's offseason and just got done filming the remaining four.

--By the end of this year, every team will have visited every city at least once in an eight-year span, concluding the first cycle of the NFL's scheduling realignment which started in 2002 when Houston joined the league. Detroit will be making its first regular season trip to Cincinnati since 1992.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "Much has been said about 'they don't do this' or 'they don't do that'. That's not true. We do do and we do it at a very, very high level. Again, Laveranues here and the things we will continue to do shows that." - Coach Marvin Lewis on past perceptions about the Bengals.