06-29-2017, 03:35 PM
(06-24-2017, 06:03 PM)grampahol Wrote: You know..IF the Bengals go on to win the super bowl this year and stomp every opponent into the ground under their cleats all the arguments about Marvin not being up to the job will be mute. 1. The simple fact of the matter is that everyone stinks up until the point that they don't. I have never made the assumption that Marvin is incapable of taking the team all the way. 2. Its simply not all on any one individual. On every single play of every snap there's always 22 players on the field and any number of coaches and assistant coaches.
There are just too many moving parts to a team to blame success or failure on one person. You can use the argument that the buck stops there, 3. but without your best players playing their best it's tough to pin it all on the guy in charge of hiring and firing. 4. There's just so many intangible factors that nobody can reliably predict from day to day and there's also such things as referee biases and league interference and perceived bias towards certain teams and markets.
1. By that logic, we should've never fired Dave Shula. A championship could've been right around the corner. You never know...
2. We've gone through at least 2 different core groups of players with Marvin Lewis and we've had the same results for going on 15 years now. At some point, you have to start looking at the guy who is not only getting these guys ready, prepared and oversees the game plans, but also is responsible for the drafting of these players. Either way...it falls back on the guy at the top. Either he's assembling rosters of choke artists, or he himself is a choke artist.
3. Maybe Marv isn't putting his best players in the best positions to succeed?
4. I might buy that if we were talking about a couple games. Not 7. Plus 5 of the games weren't even close. Hard to blame refs for a 31-10 loss.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
