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Bengals cornerback Adam Jones will be addressing NFL rookies at the league’s rookie symposium again this year as part of the effort to inform rookies about potential trouble and how to avoid it. It’s a decision that some have questioned in light of Jones’ recent arrest on charges of assaulting a woman outside a bar…

COMMENTARY | The internet exploded recently when it was revealed that HBO had targeted the Cincinnati Bengals for its latest edition of Hard Knocks.

Now that he's served a 30-day sentence, reduced to seven days , for showing disrespect in a Broward County, Fla. courtroom, former NFL receiver Chad Johnson would very much like to become current NFL receiver Chad Johnson. And so, the man who hasn't caught on with an NFL team since the Miami Dolphins cut him in the 2012 preseason, took to the airwaves to plead his case for one more shot at the NFL. "I think everyone deserves a second chance," Johnson told "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts on Tuesday morning. "Many would say I might not deserve it. I would like to finish my career the right way. I don't want the last thing to be remembered -- 'Chad was cut from the Dolphins for an incident he had with his wife.' I would love to grace the football field one more time and to help some team. I'm not injured; there is nothing wrong with me. I've learned my lesson, especially after those past seven days. "Situations like this usually break people," Johnson concluded. "I wouldn't allow anything to break me, so I try to continue to be my same positive self. And I think with me being Chad, it kind of made the judge feel I wasn't being serious about the situation. But trust me, I understood exactly what I did and lost two of the things I loved the most at that time. Those two things would be his ex-wife, Evelyn Lozada, who divorced him after a domestic violence incident, and the game of football, which has seemed to divorce him just as definitively. Johnson last caught a pass in an NFL game for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI, and while his arrest may have led to his decline with the Dolphins, Johnson's decline in a football sense most likely had a lot more to do with it. In that Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants, Tom Coughlin's team was able to cheat its safeties up with impunity, despite the fact that this defense was facing Tom Brady, for two primary reasons: Tight end Rob Gronkowski was injured (though he played), and Johnson never acclimated to the offense Brady runs. The Patriots' offense has arguably the most complex system of option routes in the game, and Johnson -- who made his bones with the Cincinnati Bengals from 2001 through 2010 with a far less complex book -- couldn't keep up. It's safe to say that although it hasn't been that long since Johnson disappeared from the league in a relevant sense, the game has passed him by even more since then. More than ever, today's NFL defenses are constructed with multiple fronts, extra pass defenders, and zone/man hybrid schemes which require precision from every quarterback/receiver combination. As Brady intimated in 2012, after Johnson was not welcomed back to his organization, that instant and unspoken trust between a quarterback and his targets is not an option -- it is a requirement.

COMMENTARY | It is a well-known fact that 2012 was a treacherous year in the red zone for the Cincinnati Bengals. According to teamrankings.com, the Bengals finished 17 overall in red zone scoring percentage in 2012 (touchdowns only).

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A contrite Chad Johnson apologized for disrespecting a judge when the former NFL star slapped his attorney on the backside in court last week and was released from jail after only a week instead of 30 days.

COMMENTARY | The current state of the NFC North is one of transition and optimism. This is a division that has seen each of its members make the playoffs within the past two seasons and had three teams in the postseason in 2012. The Detroit Lions were the ones left out of that picture, but offseason free-agent signings and a solid draft class have the Motor City buzzing about what could happen in 2013.

Smith to be fined for missing minicamp

Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones will speak at the NFL Rookie Symposium next week, despite recently being arrested for assault.

COMMENTARY | The Cincinnati Bengals are now officially slated to star in the 2013 version of HBO's "Hard Knocks" (via NFL.com). Head coach Marvin Lewis released a statement about the decision to return to the show.

The Bengals has decided to embrace Hard Knocks, at a time when Cincinnati’s NFL team could be preparing to knock off the Ravens as the division, conference, and/or league champions. So why invite cameras and microphones into training camp, given the inherent distractions that can arise?  Coach Marvin Lewis thinks the NFL Films crew provides…