Football Life - Carson Palmer

[Hoofhearted]

(09-21-2018, 10:34 AM)Nately120 Wrote: I get what you are saying, but in all fairness hasn't MB and the Bengals as an organization improved slightly in the way they do things since 2003?  In a way I don't think it was completely crazy for Carson, or Bengals fans to think that experiencing the first winning season in the MB era and seeing the excitement, increased interest/revenue, and national recognition the team received as a result would have so little effect on things.

Winning seems to be addictive for most owners/GMs, but the issue is that the type of winning to which MB is addicted doesn't place the on the field product at the forefront.  That's my take, at least...I don't claim to know everything that goes on with the Bengals (and I never will because I'm not a family member).

It almost looks like MB takes both winning and losing as evidence to "stay the course" and not shake things up.  When we are bad we need to stay consistent and not get into that QB and HC carousel all bad teams go, and when we are even remotely good (as in last year) we have evidence that things are going the right direction and we should stay the course.  Maybe the success we had in 2005 convinced MB that his methods from 1991 onward were always sound and finally paid off.

yes sir, I think they have got better since 03. And to be completely honest, that year we did what exactly?

Hired ML. I attribute a lot of our turnaround to ML. As I said in an earlier post, just look at the stats before he was here and since he's been here. Night and day difference, even if we haven't won a PO game. And remember some of the posts of when Housh was here and they had to share jock straps before ML? Just small snippets into what I believe is a ML turnaround to the culture of this team.