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(09-22-2017, 03:15 PM)fortyyearfan Wrote: as long as all of you keep showing up at the stadium,nothing will change.again this organization will maybe win 7-8 games.most of these dudes on both lines would not start for anybody else in nfl,I know there are exceptions,like 97.COACHING is one of the biggest problems,and if marvin has not figures it out after 15 years he is the problem,and mikey will hire from within which is another huge problem.Jim HASSlet will probably get the nod and he is not the answer.need new blood everywhere.will not happen.believe me this is going to be another long long season of LOSING.AND players are once again wanting to get the hell out of dodge.So much wasted talent,its just insane.Think of this folks,50 years of losing and guess what,we are honoring a bunch of losers every home game,now that is insanity.

Coaching is clearly a problem, but I could not tell you exactly how or why.  Too much goes on behind the scenes to really assess things with total accuracy.

But if you look back over time you see that coaches like Paul Brown, Bill Walsh, Forrest Gregg, Hank Bullough, Sam Wyche, Mike Zimmer and Hue Jackson (though I still have reservations) have made a significant impact on this team.  And to a degree you have to include Marvin Lewis in that group.   You have to be doing something right to have taken a loser team and taken us to the playoffs 5 times

But there is always a ceiling and always a shelf life.   I believe Marvin has reached both of these.  

I don't know about Guenther, because from the outside in it always has seemed that Marvin meddles in the coaches' business too much (I mean I know he IS the head coach, but you have to know not to meddle).   I think he's demonstrated that he's willing to meddle with Guenther. 

He did not do that with Zimmer

So I wouldn't be distraught if they promoted Guenther.   But I will be angry if they keep Alexander.   I have no doubt but that he has really good qualities as an OL coach.  He's just had too much success.  But he has been messing up badly really since Whit, Zeitler and Boling.

And I don't know if letting Whit and Zeitler was a joint decision or the owner's.   But if you're in win now mode it was a colossally bad decision to let both of those guys go.   Really the only wise decision for win now was to keep both and develop Fisher and Og as a backup.

We are not going to have a decisive change in direction until Mr. Brown passes away or is just incapable of performing his job.

But I believe that his daughter is more flexible a thinker than he is, and I believe she has his ear. 

Here's hoping that there are changes on the horizon - regardless of the record.   And I think there will be because I have a hard time believing that we can get out of the situation we're in.   I would be shocked if we are a .500 team this  year.   if not we'll have some fun along the way.  If so we should have some changes to look forward to.