Pick the next HC

[MileHighGrowler]

(12-15-2020, 01:30 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I want a proven winner at the highest level to be the next coach of the Cincinnati Bengals.  I don’t want Marvin Lewis back but he was a proven winner as a defensive coordinator in Baltimore and this is the way to proceed; no more “we think this guy has potential” crap.

Cincinnati needs a head coach with a lifetime winning record. This actually eliminates a lot of candidates including Rex Ryan, Jack Del Rio, Dirk Koetter, and Todd Haley.

The only former coaches who have winning records are Jeff Fisher, Brad Childress, Tony Dungy, Bill Cowher, John Fox, and Wade Phillips.   So does Marvin Lewis but that’s absolutely out of the question.

There is some appeal with that approach.  But I have two concerns with it.  

1) Would a coach really come out of retirement to come and coach any team, let alone the Bengals with the additional media circus it'll create? 

2) These guys are older, which isn't a knock in any way considering ages of other HCs, but makes me wonder how energetic they'd be for how long.  I look at Marvin when he left, how run down he was, beaten up.  It's one thing to jump in at 50 and fight it out for 5 years.  But Dungy is 65, Childress is 64, Fox is 65 and Wade is 73.  I guess I just don't see it.  Not as a HC.  As a GM, I could see those guys coming in with a passion still for the game, but not needing to deal with all of the HC duties.  I still see it as most likely they bring in a younger guy.  But I'd sure love to have the connections and long-standing passion for the game these guys offer if they would consider replacing Tobin!