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Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff Writer 9y

Tough turnaround for Bengals D

NFL, Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos

CINCINNATI -- After shutting down Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel in his first career start Sunday, the Bengals have quite the turnaround this week as they prepare to face Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos on Monday night.

But can anything carry over for their defense on the heels of the dominant 30-0 win?

"Nothing," Bengals safety George Iloka said.

Iloka on Thursday became the latest Bengal to feel pestered this week by a line of questions that involved highlighting the vast differences between Manziel and Manning. One has just one career start under his belt. The other has 254. One likes to run when he feels pressure. The other stands upright and takes hits as he throws. One is at the beginning of his career. The other is closing in on the twilight of a certain Hall of Fame tenure.

Putting their names in the same sentence was an insult to Iloka.

"It's Peyton Manning and it's Johnny Manziel," Iloka said. "He'll be a good quarterback one of these days, but let's not put him in the same type of category right now. The only thing we can take from last week is how fired up we came, how intense we were and try and come out the gate the same way."

The Bengals jumped to a 10-0 lead and gave up just two rushing yards and four passing yards in the first quarter against the Browns.

Earlier this week, cornerback Terence Newman jokingly interrupted an interview session at an adjacent locker when a reporter asked a similar question to linebacker Vincent Rey. Like Iloka, Newman said there was no way the quarterbacks' names belonged together simply because Manziel is a rookie.

"We can't take the things we did last week and apply it to Peyton," Iloka said. "That would be foolish."

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