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The Cincinnati Bengals are off to an 0-4 start, but that doesn’t mean head coach Marvin Lewis needs to be worried about his job security.
Adam Schefter of NFL Network reported on today’s NFL GameDay Morning that Bengals management has quietly informed Lewis that he is going to be the head coach in Cincinnati as long as wants.
And really, that shouldn’t come as a big surprise. Lewis has two years left on his contract after this season, and Bengals owner Mike Brown isn’t the kind of guy who wants to keep paying a fired coach through the 2010 season.
Lewis has a record of 42-43 in his five-plus seasons with the Bengals.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Mike Brown, let my Bengals go!
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October 5th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Glad to see Marvin will still be around. HOWEVER, we still need a GM and that is something else that Mike Brown won’t pay for.
Every decision I have seen with this organization has been pretty stupid over the last few weeks. I just can’t see the wins piling up. Will they go 0-7 like in 2002? A Shout Out to my boy Keith Rivers….”Hey, welcome to the Sink Hole…and, uh, sorry. But just like Marvin, you will get paid.”
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October 5th, 2008 at 11:05 am
thats why they are the bengals
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October 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Mike Brown is the biggest problem the Bengals ever had. I wonder if he knows how much of a tremendous failure he looks like when compared to his father.
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October 5th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Lewis is an over-rated,underachieved coach. With great talented player list that included Carson, TJ, Henry (Wouldnt list Ocho Stinko) Leon Hall, River (rookie) on both sides of the football, its a shame they are still loosing. This has to be blamed on Coaching in my view.
Also I wouldn’t give free pass to Marvin on rehiring on Henry. Media gives him a free pass whenever the Bengals sign a Turd saying that its Operations that made the bad decision as though its not a coach’s fault. I am not buying it.
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October 5th, 2008 at 11:22 am
It’s not Marvin’s fault that the Bengals have the smallest scouting department in the league and no general manager. To say that Mike Brown runs the team like a small family business is an insult to family businesses everywhere.
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October 5th, 2008 at 11:24 am
He SHOULD be on the hotseat…he’s done a pathetic job - the team is composed with nothing but a huge bunch of assholes - and his “specialty” - Defense - is a total embarrassment.
He doesn’t get the criticism that he deserves for doing such a lousy job….HMMMMM - I wonder why?
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October 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am
That’s the old “I’m not going to break up with you, I’m going to make you break up with me” technique.
No surprise there. Every decision the Bengals make is driven by cost savings.
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October 5th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Conventional Wisdom begs to differ.
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October 5th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Mike Brown continues to kick us Bengal fans when we are down. Go ahead, Marvin, do whatever you want. Stay in the locker room during the game, it doesn’t matter. Your job is safe.
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October 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Tbe biggest problem with the Bengals is lack of accountability. Mike Brown is not accountable, Marvin is not held accountable, the coaches are not accountable and certainly the players are not held accountable.
Mike’s legendary lack of skills at the GM helm need no elaboration. Marvin is guilty of lack of motivating the players, poor game management, not holding position coaches accountable (other than the defensive coordinater, who he uses to take the heat off himself), and refuses to play players for ego reasons.
The Bengals have had problems with too many or too few players on the field for at least two years. There is also a problem with the offensive coordinator getting the call to the quarterback in time to allow the QB to read the defense before the time clock goes to 0.
Don’t the Bengals have a periodic review of how they operate on the sidelines and try to fix things? With radios in the QB’s helmut, why does it take the Bengals’ coaching staff so long to call a play, when in the old days, they signaled the plays in effortlessly. This incompetancy results in blown plays and extra timeouts called to prevent delay of game penalties. This is fixable, folks and it is solely Marvin Lewis’ fault.
Marvin won’t play the best players. It seems he occasionally has grudges against certain players and won’t put them in the game. Marvin has only played one of their draft picks so far this season. Don’t you think that at 0 and 4 they could afford to take out some of the highly paid prima donnas and let the new guys play?
Marvin has let Carson Palmer get a broken nose and hurt throwing arm (so far) because Marvin won’t pull some of the washed up linemen who are pulling in a huge salary.
The players see that Marvin is not held accontable, the coaches are not held accountable and that the superstar players are not accountable, so they play just to get by. The players do not believe in Marvin anymore. Mike should fire him ASAP.
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October 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
While I am on a roll, Marvin should be accountable for the playcalling of Offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski. Marvin stated in the off-season that the Bengals were going to run the ball more. Yet, they cut Willie Anderson and Rudy Johnson. So what do they do with the speedy Chris Perry? Run him between the tackles as if Perry was a Rudi clone. Stupid!
You devise game plans to take advantage of your strengths against the defense’s weaknesses. Since the Detroit pre-season game, the Bengals were shown to be weak in covering the Blitz. Since the Bengals only called running plays between the tackles, the run blitz became very effective in defending against the Bengals running game.
So did they make adjustments? No! So they average just 2 ypc. Anyone with any sense would adjust to run slants, screens or run off tackle since the rush was coming up the middle.
With exception of the Giants game, Bratkowski calls run up the middle, run up the middle and pass. This has put the weak line at its weakest and has contributed to Carson Palmer’s injury.
Bratkowski should be fired, but since he works for Marvin, Marvin Lewis is responsible for the lack of creative play calling.
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