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Pro Bowler Johnson looks to better his play, stats
The Enquirer - Bengals notebook
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Despite four consecutive Pro Bowl berths, Chad Johnson always is looking for ways to improve.
His coaches are always looking, too.
One of the points of emphasis this training camp for the Bengals is to improve their run game. Part of the responsibility will fall on wide receivers to block better down the field.
Johnson also wants to finish the season better statistically. He had just 10 receptions for 102 yards and no touchdowns in the final three games of 2006, all losses.
Johnson has been almost as difficult to pin down for an interview in the early days of camp as he is for cornerbacks to cover. But he threw out this morsel - somewhat jokingly - the other night.
"Coach (Marvin) Lewis threw it in my face," Johnson said. "He told me that was why I was underpaid because I sucked in the last three games of the season. He said when I step it up in the last three (games), they will give me more money."
OKLAHOMA: The Bengals held their first full-pads practice in training camp Sunday afternoon.
And with players in uniform pants and shoulder pads, the traditional Oklahoma drill was run. In it, an offensive player blocks or attempts to block a defender in a lane about 5 yards wide. Then a running back runs through the hole.
Wide receiver Skyler Green lost his helmet but fended off cornerback Leon Hall. Safeties Chinedum Ndukwe and Herana-Daze Jones shed blockers and hit running backs.
"The key is getting low during the initial shock and keeping your hands close, keeping them inside the framework of the body," Jones said. "You can control anybody like that. It's a fun drill. I'm a pro at that drill. We start that every year, first day in pads, just to get the itch to get going."
The drill ended with Johnson trying to block linebacker Eric Henderson.
The two players were yapping during stretching, and Lewis said Johnson "bribed" him to finish it off.
"It's his new emphasis on (downfield) blocking," Lewis said. "Things didn't go Chad's way."
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