11-22-2017, 02:39 PM
(11-22-2017, 02:33 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Pretty telling about the Scouting Departments. Still, so many Steeler bandwagon fans doubt they have problems EVER
selling tickets and this is where winning comes in. MB would make so much more money if he went into FA trying to get
a proven top tier player once in awhile because we wouldn't have to just rely on unproven players being coached up by
our inferior coaches, specifically our O-line coach.
In the end though we have to change what can be changed and that is the coaching if we want to improve.
The owner will be the owner until he hands over the keys to Katie or he dies.
This article says it all:
GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- The revolution marches on in a lush-green field three miles from the Georgetown Scott County Airport. If the billboards and the urinal-cake campaign didn't do it, didn't stir the Cincinnati Bengals out of an 18-year slumber, surely Andrew Simon's banner will.
Simon was 8 years old the last time Cincinnati won a playoff game. Now he's a 27-year-old instigator, plunking down $1,000 for a guy named Bud to fly his single-engine prop plane over Bengals camp for an hour with a tersely worded message for team president Mike Brown. Simon's cell phone rings on an unseasonably cool Friday night during training camp. There is a problem: Bud is being denied access to the airport runway. But the fan uprising must carry on, so the plane lands near a church, and a banner that says "101-187-1 ... HIRE A GM!" is attached.
The tiny red-and-white plane manages to take off, banner in tow, and buzzes over the Bengals' scrimmage, over Brown, who's seated on a patio. By all accounts, the leader of Bengaldom is unfazed. He fixes his eyes on the football field. Another hopeful summer trudges on.
"What plane?" Bengals coach Marvin Lewis says jokingly after the flyby. "I think [Brown] feels like it's a waste of natural resources. I mean, that's all he says about it. He says, 'Well, if they've got that kind of money, they ought to buy some tickets.'"
It's hard, explaining futility, when it takes hold of a franchise for the better part of 18 years and refuses to let go. When it comes in a league built for parity and collides with a family legacy.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/trainingcamp09/news/story?id=4417295
