He only played one snap against the Patriots' 2nd team offense. On it, he cleaned up after Domato Peko blew up a running play, notching a TFL. Unfortunately, it looked like he re-aggravated his groin/hamstring injury on that play and immediately went to the sideline.

When he returned in the second half, he did a nice job reading a screen for TFL #2. He got the QB pressure on a play where he blitzed from the strongside and the RT didn't pick him up.

He took some bad angles on a couple plays and had one of his tackles broken, but none of those mistakes burned the Bengals. After the missed tackle, however, he went down on the sideline and had the training staff look at his knee. It didn't look all that serious.

He mostly came off the field on passing downs. Probably because of his injuries - the Bengals' coaching staff has been pretty adamant about him being an every down LB.

@mark-o said:

TO is based solely on the fact that he throws every single quarterback he plays with under the bus, often while he's still on the same team. If there's a valid criticism of Johnson, it's not his antics, it's the fact that he makes himself a distraction by demanding a trade every year. At the same time, it's kind of hard to side too much with the rest of the Bengals when they complain about it, because it's not like they were tearing it up before he got there. But certainly if you look at his teammates, Johnson should be the least of the Bengals' worries. And if I had to play in Cincinnati, I'd try to find ways to entertain myself and demand a trade at every turn as well.

Dennis