Marvin Lewis through with questions about Vontaze Burfict's return

CINCINNATI -- After he followed up a one-word response to a question about linebacker Vontaze Burfict with a brusque, two-word reply on the same subject, Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis put his foot down.

"I'm not saying anything to you guys anymore," he said to the small collection of beat reporters who addressed him Friday. "That's the way it is. That's the way it goes."

Lewis was perturbed by the frequency of questions he was receiving about a potential timetable for the linebacker to play in a game for the first time this year. Fresh off rehab from microfracture surgery in January, Burfict on Thursday went through his first practice this season, after which he told a larger…