If you listen closely this spring, you can hear Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis admonish his team for a bad play or a poor sprint with something along the lines of, “We’re going to do it again. We’re not going to do what we did last year and wait until the bye to start playing.” Click here for Cincinnati Bengals tickets.

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In more calmer moments, Lewis says of a fast start to the regular season, “We changed our whole approach to this offseason, changed our whole approach to training camp. Everything I’m responsible for, we’ve changed to make it better that way.”

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The numbers say they have to. Only one of the 12 playoff teams last season (the Colts) lost their opener, only one playoff team (Green Bay) had a losing record after the first six games, and more than half of the playoff teams won five of their first six.

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In Lewis’ two seasons, the Bengals have lost the opener by a combined 64-34, and have started 2-4 each season before identical 6-4 finishes.

Of the first six games in 2005, four are on the road, where the Bengals are 6-10 under Lewis. But none of those opponents had a winning record at home last season and only the 9-7 Jaguars had a winning record overall in 2004 among Cleveland (Sept. 11), Chicago (Sept. 25), Jacksonville (Oct. 9) and Tennessee (Oct. 16) in what certainly looks to be a winnable scenario.

“I don’t know what a better start is,” Lewis said. “6-0? 7-0? 8 or 9-0? Certainly we have to do the opposite of what we’ve done in the past. We want to keep looking at what we can do to play better, get our guys to buckle down and play because we obviously figure it out and finish better than those starts. We can’t wait for that.”

Wide receiver Chad Johnson says the key to the season lies in the first four games, but it might even be before that. In the AFC, all but one playoff team (San Diego) started at least 2-1, as did nine around the NFL. The first six games are also indicators. The 2-4 Packers were the only playoff team under .500 after the first six games and only the 3-3 Chargers didn’t have a winning record in the AFC, where four teams won at least five of their first six.

The trend started long before Lewis arrived. After the Bengals went 3-0 to start their last playoff season of 1990, they have gone at least 2-1 just three times, 1992, 1995 and 2001. The Bengals haven’t gone 4-2 since 1990 and have been 3-3 just once, in 2001.

The Bengals have had early byes under Lewis and are 2-7 before them and 14-9 after them. This year, the bye isn’t until after the eighth game.

“If we start (playing) at the bye week this year, we’ll be out of the race,” Lewis said.

Bengals defensive tackle John Thornton may have switched sides, but he knows the heat always seems to end up on the defense in the NFL.

“From what I’ve been reading,” Thornton joked this week, “our offense is already in the playoffs with their arms folded waiting for us.”

While the offense has re-captured all of its starters amid the flashing sirens of multi-year deals, Thornton’s much-maligned defense is quietly undergoing a transition in style and substance.

With familiar faces in different spots in what looks to be a more multiple scheme, the themes of communication and simplicity emerged during this week’s first three coaching sessions. New coordinator Chuck Bresnahan reminds veteran safety Kim Herring of one of his old defensive coordinators.

“Him,” said Herring, nodding to Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis.

The defense has been on the field for just three days, but Herring, a two-time Super Bowl starter, has been around long enough to get a quick feel of things. Bresnahan is his third different coordinator in three years after playing for current Bears head coach Lovie Smith in St. Louis from 2000-2003 and Leslie Frazier here last year in what turned out to be Frazier’s last season.

“They’re very similar,” said Herring of Bresnahan and Lewis, his coordinator in Baltimore from 1997-99 on the Ravens record-breaking defense. “You can’t breathe without them knowing it, which is fine. It makes you think, ‘I better learn my stuff or he’s going to get on me.’ It makes everybody learn their position and I can trust the guy next to me.”