So...where are all the interviews for Marvin Lewis?

[Essex Johnson]

(01-06-2019, 03:54 PM)Destro Wrote: Can call it all opinions, as teams can have the same coaches and swing back and forth in rankings, which are subjective, as yards means nothing if the other team is scoring at will, especially on short fields. If you're defense is great, that can translate to wins, which it didn't. You think these players just started to suck after Lewis left? Just like the Ravens defense was good after Lewis left, including going to the and winning the Super bowl again.

Regardless, it was 15 years ago when some seem to think he was so great, and he has been a deer in headlights as a head coach. Going back to a DC is something where the game has passed him by. He doesn't carry any pedigree or respect to players on other teams. "This guy who always lost with the Bengals is going to teach me defense?" He has no validity. Give him credit for being there when first ballot Hall of Famers won the Super Bowl. He got his participation ring. One year as DC in Washington means something? Acting like he took no name bums and made them into stars, and then they folded without Marvin telling them to tackle the guy with the ball. Get out of here.

He watched the Bengals come from being the laughing stock, to successful ( not in the post season, mind you ), to back to being a laughing stock.

Say what you want about the man, but Stephan A. Smith has a national audience. His hot takes on Marvin Lewis were vicious and tended to be spot on. People know that. He is poisoned now. Can argue justly or not, but he is on the Chip Kelly level of NFL sad.

Bengals played "better" defense when he took over? How cute...did they win? Was anyone afraid of this defense? Is there any other direction the defense could have gone but better? Offense played "better" when Lazor took over, right? Oh I remember so many loving all over him; not so much now.

And the Steelers like him? Surprise, surprise. Been winning games for them for years. Wasn't Joey Porter their LB coach until this past week? The man could coach a full sentence out of his mouth. Clapping let's go would improve them.

Deflecting and Deflecting.. you stated earlier he was not a good defensive coach before he got to Cincinnati, then you just give talking points. the Ravens were good ever he left. duh.. but they were not as good then when he was there.. you have refuted nothing of him as a defensive coach before he took Cincinnati as a head coach..  He did not achieve what we wanted as a head coach with the Bengals but to act like he is not a quality assistant coach in the past the facts do not show it.... and finally he was not a horrible head coach.. he did have a winning record when he finished, 4 league titles in a division of Steelers and Ravens and 7 playoff appearances, that is much better than many many coaches that have been head coaches in the history of the NFL.. The man is #24 in all time wins out of almost 500 coaches he have ever coached in the NFL

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/ 

PS:  When you start resorting to media heads as your facts.. you just lose all credibility , I have nothing left to say on this thread.. lol