[BFritz]

Man, I hope they are as good as you're reporting them to be. It sounds as if the entire defense has stepped it up a notch. You're not seeing all this through orange-colored glasses, are you?

Oh well, I don't care. This is the time of year for eternal optimism about the Bengals "D"!

Usually, I am, but this year I honestly see a promising defense. It looks like everyone will be busting their tails just to get on the field and busting their tails more to stay on the field, even down to the special teams' positions.

So was everbody signing autographs? I hope to get my son a few autographs so he will have something to remember from this experience.

The players walk along the crowd in the area between the locker room and practice field, line-up there after practice (you'll wanna try and line-up early so you can get at the front of the rope that seperates the players and crowd) and you'll get pretty many autographs.