11-05-2017, 12:00 PM
(11-01-2017, 03:38 PM)BengalChris Wrote: I hear some say Dalton is the reason the Bengals can't turn the corner, and if you take an honest look at his play you will find mistakes, no doubt.
Others are irate with Marvin Lewis and there is plenty of evidence that Marvin just can't lead this team to big victories consistently, or not at all if you look at the playoffs.
Then there's the OL, a group of girly men who play like they are taking female hormones in preparation for a sex change operation. Their coach has done a horrible job for the last several years and his player selections in the draft have been bad for many years.
All of that could be true.
But it is the owner who selects the coaches, approves the draft choices, decides who gets re-signed in free agency and who is too old to be of use for a new contract.
If Mikey Brown was doing his job, as self appointed General Manager, then we would see:
A. A head coach who really knew how to win vital games, win in the playoffs (and not just get killed almost every time), would have control of the team, would game plan better, would make changes much more quickly instead of waiting until all was lost, etc.
B. Offensive coaches that did know what a good OLman would look like and we'd be selecting better and if we made a mistake in drafting a tackle (or any player), we'd figure out what we did wrong and we'd select another (better) one.
C. Andy Dalton would be coached to deal with real game situations. He'd have a good OL that didn't betray him every other play, or more often than that as has been the case in some games. He'd have a legit #2 WR on the field.
D. We wouldn't draft out of desperation or hope or a pile of "ifs", none of which are likely.
Yes, it all comes down to having an owner who named himself GM without any qualifications what-so-ever and he continues to suck at it. That one move by him when his father died was the fatal move he made. He's still the GM, make no bones about it. He decides what the team will take for AJ McCarron, has to sign off on draft picks and he's got his body standing on the team's pocket books when it comes to free agency.
JUST BLAME MIKE BROWN cause you'll be far more right than wrong on anything that goes wrong with the Bengals.
Admitting the owner is the issue is basically saying that things aren't going to get better anytime soon...and a lot of fans aren't willing to admit that so they blame things that can change...Marvin, Dalton, etc.
The Bengals have had exactly 3 seasons in 50 years where they won a playoff game.
