Marvin Lewis

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It's an entertainment business and not one in which they produce a tangible product you can take home or buy on the shelf at Walmart.  Marvin is good at organizing the show we all know as football, but the little nuts and bolts of the game itself not so much. If it were almost any other type of business they would have gone bankrupt long ago,  but when the team loses you don't have the option to stand in line to demand a refund or exchange. Look, if an NFL franchise can go 25 years in dead last place and still turn a profit and pay people millions of dollars every year there's no reason to blame the coach for that insanity. That kind of crazy belongs to the league for allowing it to happen in the first place. 

I asked my dad why back in the early 60s he didn't invest every penny he had in an NFL franchise. Back then it could be had for the cost of a car today and the willingness to probably eat live children..who knows? 
Marvin really did give the team a level of respectability it sorely lacked in the 90s, but as many have pointed out its just not going to move forward under Lewis. As an entertainment business where winning v losing really isn't as important as profit then by every other standard the Bengals are a rip roaring success, but if we factor in win/loss  records and playoffs it's another story .  Perhaps instead of worrying about winning and losing we should only worry whether the team is profitable and if that's the only true measure then we should all be estatically happy and not worry who is the head coach. Hell, put a 4th grader who heaves spitwads across the room all day as long as they're profitable .