An Interesting Parallel

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(09-27-2019, 08:47 PM)BengalChris Wrote: Marvin Lewis' first season as head coach of the Bengals began with three straight losses and ended 8-8.

During that season we also played against the NFC West.

We split the AFC North games winning one game against each of the AFC North rivals, including the game at Pittsburgh.

We also lost at Buffalo that year.

Marvin did it with journeyman QB Jon Kitna who was named the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year.

The team's first pick, Carson Palmer, didn't play a down.

2003's 8-8 record was only the second time a Bengals team had finished with a non-losing record under Mike Brown. The first time was in 1996 when Dave Shula coached the first 7 games and went 1-6 and was replaced by Bruce Coslet, when team finished 7-2.

Back in the thread I started with much of this information, I also pointed out that we were 8-6 after the 0-3 start. Lost the last 2 games, but the possibility of going 10-6 after an 0-3 start was very much real.