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Any team that gives up 51 points to the Cleveland Browns desperately needs help on defense, and the Cincinnati Bengals have announced on their web site that the team has signed linebacker Dhani Jones.

Jones is a likable guy and an articulate analyst in his part-time gig on NFL Network, but realistically, it's hard to see how Jones helps much. This is a guy, after all, who couldn't make the Saints' roster, and the Saints' defense isn't exactly the '85 Bears.

Like so many other Bengals, Jones has an arrest record, although Jones' arrest was a rather bizarre incident, as he was cited for a misdemeanor charge of failure to obey a lawful command after he allegedly refused to stop dancing outside a South Beach club. It's not quite clear why "stop dancing" is a lawful command.

Jones has played in the NFL for eight years, with the Eagles and the Giants, and announced on NFL Network that he had signed with the Saints this summer. But the Saints cut him after training camp.