GEORGETOWN, Ky. — About the time Brett Favre retired from football this spring, Chad Johnson was claiming he'd never play for the Cincinnati Bengals again.

Both are back for another season, and only Favre has a new team.

Johnson believed he was taking too much criticism for the team's disappointing 7-9 season.

He let it be known that he thought he and the Bengals needed to part ways.

That didn't happen, and as the Bengals go through their second week of training camp workouts, it is hard to tell that any discontent ever existed.

That is, other than the silence Johnson keeps with hometown media.

"I think the players, as are most of us, are forgiving and want to see the good in people, so I think that's how he approached it and that's how we accepted it," receivers coach Mike Sheppard said Thursday.

By The Associated Press