Dooms Day hasn't hit us yet.

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(12-11-2017, 12:44 PM)bengals67 Wrote: This is doomsday

Mike Brown is not going to make the changes needed to fix this franchise. This would hurt his pocket book.

Team is looking at another awful run.

Season tickets holders and attendance is going to drop.

County is not going to pay the fees they owe under the lease.

Bengals will either break the lease and move in the next three years or as soon as lease is over and will blame low attendance and failure of local governments to give them the support they will get from countless other cities when they start looking ( if they are not already looking for a new city I would be stunned)

Not only am I about done with the Bengals , I am getting very close to hoping they lose every game they play.

I am struggling to see any integrity in this organization.

They have taken the fan base and local government to the cleaners and the loyal support they have received despite the incompetent way the organization is run will be long forgotten when they are in London  with a new subsidized stadium and larger TV market.

Plus, if they move to London, GODell will make sure they get better calls from the refs because it will be important t TV ratings for London team to be competitive.

I don't think the problem is the integrity or the greed of the organization.

It's their philosophies.  These are really very good people, and they've been around football for a long time.  They want to win and they are not as stupid was people make them seem.

I do believe that Mr. Brown is entrenched in his beliefs - some of which are reinforced by some very good teams (Patriots/ Steelers) - and just tends to be too inflexible.  I do have the hope that Katie will be less rigid.  She certainly appears to be skilled as a negotiator.  But I believe that she is hamstrung by her father's inherited beliefs: e.g. that you don't pay guards, centers and safeties.

This year they decided that Whit and Zietler were not going to be worth the money because of age and the value of the position respectively.  My feeling is that they waited too long to make moves that the players' agents would find acceptable a year earlier. 

And to be fair, they may have made decent offers, but if you're Zeitler's agent aren't you going to wait till DeCastro signs and sets the market for the next year before you commit your client to a contract?

Where I think I disagree (and I would be going against the Patriot's decision not to sign Logan Mankins) I would have overpaid both of them a year earlier given the disaster we had with Og, Fisher and Bodine.  Although all of them got better towards the end of this season, yesterday showed why Og just will never be a quality NFL tackle - and Smith did not have the best day either.   And we really have no true quality anywhere on that offensive line.  Boling is our best and he's limited.

Those decisions were the most questionable decisions over the last couple of years - combined with letting Nelson go too early.  Our safeties have never quite recovered, though they have not been terrible (though they were yesterday - but with the exceptions of Gio and Johnson so was everyone else)

I believe Marvin has to go.  But Iloka was right.  The game plan was adequate the execution was horrendous.

But they better be careful who they select.  Because it's just not easy to find the right recipe for success in the league.