Orton struggles in Bears' loss

CHICAGO -- The Cincinnati Bengals picked up the habit of bumbling starts after 1990, the last time they started 3-0 and made the playoffs. On Sunday, they broke it -- with a 24-7 victory over the Chicago Bears.\nCincinnati, which entered the game with a league-leading 10 takeaways, picked off Chicago Bears quarterback Kyle Orton five times and the Bengals became the first NFL team in 34 years to intercept five passes in consecutive games.\nThe Bengals' fast start doesn't satisfy Carson Palmer.\n"Three games is nothing when you play a 16-game season," the Bengals' quarterback said. "Don't get me wrong. It's great to be 3-0 and have this start. But we still have a lot of games -- a lot of big games -- ahead of us and a lot of really good teams."\nMadieu Williams, Keiwan Ratliff, Tory James, Deltha O'Neal and Brian Simmons each intercepted Orton. The Bengals intercepted Daunte Culpepper five times in last week's 37-8 victory over Minnesota; the 1971 Cleveland Browns were the last to pick off five in back-to-back games.\nPalmer was 16-of-23 for 169 yards and three touchdowns, two of them to Chad Johnson, and did not throw an interception against a Bears defense that picked off Detroit's Joey Harrington five times the previous week.\nRudi Johnson rushed for 84 yards on 25 carries.\nChicago's Thomas Jones rushed for 106 yards and scored the Bears' lone touchdown on a 2-yard run early in the fourth quarter, after a 139-yard performance in last week's 38-6 rout of Detroit. Cedric Benson, the No. 4 pick in the draft, did not play.\nOrton, who had thrown only one interception in the first two weeks, looked flustered, completing just 17 of 39 passes for 149 yards. He was the first Bear to throw five interceptions since Larry Rakestraw at Detroit in September 1968.