Back to Dalton we go

[*bengalfan74*]

(11-26-2019, 12:32 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I promise you Mike Brown, for all his faults, is absolutely furious right now.  He’s furious at himself, mostly, for hiring Zac Taylor — and let’s just assume Zac said the right things in the interview. Mike believed those things and now he has buyer’s remorse.  I imagine Duke Tobin isn’t sleeping well at night either; no one wants the 0-16 stigma on their resume.

Mike Brown has a few redeeming qualities.  First, he hates the Cleveland Browns with a seething passion over how they betrayed his father.  I totally get that.  Marvin Lewis didn’t get fired until he lost to Cleveland twice in one season — and the same fate awaits Zac Taylor if he drops two games to the Stains.

Who do we play in 2 of the last 5 games ? MB would do anything to avoid being swept by the Browns ! He demanded AD go back in for that reason #1. The #2 reason he knows if we did end up 0-16 there would be more pressure to actually have to make changes. Fire ZT ? Trade players for picks ? Get a real free agent ? And with that basically admit he was wrong ! He'll do whatever it takes to avoid admission of failure, his ego is that big.

Like me and many others have been saying for weeks now all he'll need is a couple wins and a couple competitive losses to throw out there at the end of season presser, I can hear it now.

"We did some good things to end the year, we like how we got it together. We knew we were going to struggle early, blah, blah".

In other words we're gonna stand pat ! We're not gonna do all the things regular teams in this position would do. That would require me admitting I've been wrong all along. That would require MB to actually do what a GM does. He thinks he's above that.

His ego is more important than draft position or anything else.

This is the hell of being a Bengals fan.