Chuck Bresnahan, aka Barney Rubble, has been told his services are no longer needed by the Cincinnati Bengals Football Team. I mean he's been fired.

We've all been worried by some of the comments that Marvin has been making about the type of changes we can expect. To me, it's always seemed that he wasn't saying anything about who was going to be fired and who wasn't. He was just telling the media to shut up. The Enquirer has been doing a real good job of blowing his comments out of proportion. To listen to Mark Curnutte, this was totally unexpected. But it wasn't really.

Anyway, our long regional nightmare is over. But don't be surprised if a lot more of the defense is gone in the upcoming months.

And, I'd like to point out that Rex Ryan was let go when the Ravens dumped Brian Billick. If he's not hired as a head coach somewhere, he could rejoin Marvin Lewis's staff. He was a defensive line coach on Lewis' record-setting and Super Bowl winning 2000 Ravens D.