Just Lazy: Andre Smith Returns

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(07-28-2019, 12:38 AM)samhain Wrote: I don't think they care.  I think they want to operate as they always have and that they needed a new fall guy to put a face on this  season.  Mike Brown saying that his family is as involved as ever in day-to day operations is a red flag to me.  

The family only cares that their brand was damaged in way that it hasn't been since the late 90's in 2018.  The stadium was barren.  They gambled on bringing Marvin back thinking that fans wouldn't care, and that they'd behave as they always have. maybe they would have if the season went well.  It didn't and they didn't.  

The family had to do something.  To them, canning Marv and hiring a young HC who'd say the right things is the cheapest and easiest way for them to continue with "model model" and the Bengal Way.  

Hire Zac.  Let him hire his buds to be assistants like a frat.  Who cares?  No significant free agents to supplement a quickly aging core.  Same guys as last year plus some rookies and John Miller, who isn't special. 

A new staff/coach may not have been comfortable for the family, but it was the easiest way for them to do damage control with the fanbase.  It was cheaper, and the rebranding was over by February.  It's a band aid on a bullet wound.

Honestly, I'm not so sure they fired Marvin. I think at minimum Marvin didn't one to return too. For the last couple years he looked and sounded like a guy that wanted out.