In what has become an annual rite of spring and/or summer Bengals president Mike Brown reached another one-year extension Wednesday with head coach Marvin Lewis, this one running through 2016 in what would be his 14th season with the club.
Only Bill Belichick, beginning his 16th season in New England, has been the head coach of the seam longer than Lewis among current NFL head coaches.
Lewis, 56, is working on a run of four straight play-off berths, five in the last six seasons, 40 victories since he and Brown started from scratch in the wake of the 2011 Carson Palmer trade, and his fourth straight one-year extension.