11-20-2016, 06:40 PM
(11-20-2016, 06:36 PM)BengalChris Wrote: First of all, yes Mikey Brown is the common denominator, however, Marvin has a lot of say.
Secondly, you have to draft players to replace those you can't afford to keep. The team could not have kept Marvin Jones, Sanu, Andre Smith and Nelson at the salaries those guys got. The problem is is that the team has made some bad draft picks for those replacements and not then recognized the bad picks and fixed the problem by draft a better replacement. Og and Hunt are monster busts. I know 31 other teams who would have already cut ties with Hunt and who would have Og inactive. Dennard was drafted, but hasn't been healthy enough, so they draft Willie Jackson who then gets hurt.
Thirdly, there's a lot undisciplined play and that is 100% on Marvin Lewis and the players individually.
The last one is what is going to cost Marvin his job.
They absolutely could have kept Smith and/or Nelson.
The team has some salary cap room right now. Teams like the Steelers and Ravens restructure contract too to keep players. When was the last time the Bengals did that?
