Why is Marv 0-7 in the playoffs?

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(01-21-2017, 09:41 AM)kevin Wrote: I still say it's knit picking on the word usage.  ......I'll add Bengals players of past were too much on ME or I, and why the team was awful. Look at ME, I scored a touchdown I scored a touchdown, LOOK AT ME.  Bengals Fans loved it. Problem was, that was our weakness.  Now you take the Lombardi Packers or the Belichick Patriots.  When one of our ME players went to Patriots Belichick laid the law down before he even let him put on a uniform that all the ME jazz doesn't go on Patriots.  Patriots are TEAM, TEAM, TEAM. It has to be the TEAM.   See, you Bengals Fans, especially that came on in 1990's or the 2005 team, you just LOVE this ME, ME, ME stuff.  You didn't see that the good teams were laughing at the Bengals. The good teams said the Bengals players were all talk and no action. The good teams about TEAM, TEAM, TEAM thought the losing Bengals were a joke.  The more the Bengals lost, the more the Bengals ME players talked their jive ME trash talk. The good teams said the Bengals were a joke. So what many Bengals Fans loved was considered a joke and lousy football by the good teams in the NFL. 

I'll add in the Inauguration Speech 1-20-2017, the media mentioned the new President used the word I only twice, he used the word WE a lot and the word AMERICA even more.  If you apply this to our team, the word I should almost never be used in losing or winning, the word WE should be used a lot more and use the word BENGALS more.  You hear of Packers football, Steelers football, Patriots football and the words HISTORY and PRIDE are used, and always Team Concept.  When some guy dances in the end zone and says look at ME, remember the guys that blocked to get him there.  The 1985 Bears quarterback did, that great team gave the O Line credit in front of the fans on every score. That is putting TEAM over I or ME.  

So I think this Coach Lewis saying WE not I is knit picking, and I would rather hear this franchise talk in terms of WE, and Bengals, and TEAM. I didn't go for all the ME, ME, ME stuff out of this team in the 1990s and those years around 2005 era players.  I agree with the good teams in the NFL that said they were a joke and a bunch of losers. I really like the Bengals more since 2011. ....Now I'll tell you something else. I'm not saying Marvin Lewis is the best coach in the NFL ever. I am saying that taking this sorry Mike Brown franchise into the play-offs 50 % of the time is a miracle.  This team had 12 losing seasons before Marvin Lewis. When Marvin Lewis is gone I can see the Brown Family having 12 losing seasons again. That is VERY possible. Now I have been a Bengal Fan since 1968, but that also makes me 62.  I am running out of days and years. If this team ever goes back in 1990's type BUNGLES football, I will NOT be a part of it. I do not have 12 years to waste watching The Brown Family stink up the place. There are too many other things besides this team.  If this team EVER starts being called The Bungles again, I'm done. I will not waste my time on it.  ....SO, to you that hate Marvin Lewis so much, I'm going to warn you. When Marvin Lewis is gone, The Bengals could go right back to 12 years of 3 or 4 win seasons.  I do not see the Brown Family hiring The Great White Hope Head Coach many of you dream of.  I see them hiring more coaches like Homer Rice and Dave Shula.  I do NOT see The Brown Family hiring more scouts or a GM because they are too cheap.  I DO see them maybe leaving Cincinnati for MONEY. When Marvin Lewis is gone, there is a good chance The Brown Family falls back into the 3 or 4 win seasons of BUNGLES for many years as before Coach Lewis. I'll have a pretty good idea where the Brown Family is going if this March they go back to back years of losing top players. If The Brown Family loses Hall, Nelson, Jones, Sanu, Andre Smith, Kirkpatrick, Zeitler, Whitworth, Peko, Burkhead and others all in 12 months time, I will know The Brown Family is going cheap and they do not care about winning. Like the Mel Brooks movie The Producers, The Brown Family discovered they can make more money off a flop than with a hit.  If they lose all these players in March, don't be so stupid to blame the coach, it is Mike Brown and Family.

Once again, agree to disagree. I agree with you regarding using "I" or "ME" when something good happens. However, when the team is losing and someone needs to step up and take responsibility for the blame, I expect the leader(s) to stand up, take the blame, and say how they specifically are going to try and fix things. By saying "we", it spreads the blame out and no one takes ownership of corrective actions.

Also, don't use the most recent inauguration as anything regarding a positive note. That inauguration was a joke and Trump will never own up to any mistake involving him or his cabinet. Trump is an example of the "me" Bengals from the past. "Me" whenever something goes right, but will never say "me" when something is wrong. He'll always defer blame across multiple people, never himself.