I think there is a good chance that Katie takes over the team sometime in the near future. Yes, I know this has been discussed before.

But hear me out.

The stadium lease will end in about 8 years. In 8 years Mike Brown will by about 92 and will not likely be in position mentally or possibly physically to negotiate such an important deal. I would think that Katie, if she is running the team, will want to negotiate new stadium requirements for renovation and negotiate a new lease.

My hope or delusional belief (not sure which) is that Lewis will finish this year and next year. He will complete his contract. Brown will be about 85-86 years of age at that time. Mike would have been president of football operations and GM for the Bengals for about 29 years. I would think Mike would want Katie running things a while to settle in before she negotiates a new stadium lease which in two years will leave 6 years remaining on the current lease.

I hope at that point Brown retires and Lewis is let go.

Katie will want to clean house and hire the new coaching staff IMO to establish her mark in a business predominantly run by males.
I hope Katie scraps everything and starts afresh with new coaches, uniforms, bubbled practice facility.

Katie could hire a true GM in Nick Caserio who is the director of player personnel for the Patriots. I think Tony Romo would make a good head coach. I know he is young and does not have coaching experience, but the guy knows football. If not Romo, maybe Josh McDaniels from the Patriots.

Just imagine a true GM like the talent of Caserio running the team. That is my hope...or delusion anyways.

Are you kidding me? That would cost a lot of money and I get the feeling the apple doesn't fall from the tree.....

(12-11-2018, 06:32 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Are you kidding me? That would cost a lot of money and I get the feeling the apple doesn't fall from the tree.....

The Apple might not fall far from the tree, but Katie as clearly stated she wants a GM in charge of players and for her to remain in charge of contract negotiations. She wants a buffer between her and the fans cause she doesn't like the way the fans treat Daddy.

(12-11-2018, 08:43 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: The Apple might not fall far from the tree, but Katie as clearly stated she wants a GM in charge of players and for her to remain in charge of contract negotiations. She wants a buffer between her and the fans cause she doesn't like the way the fans treat Daddy.

Well, maybe if daddy wan't such an unqualified dumbass, he'd be treated better.  And who taught her everything she knows?  Did she start as an unpaid intern and work her way up through the ranks?

Anybody thinking Katie is our great hope is living in fantasy town.

(12-11-2018, 08:48 PM)McC Wrote: Anybody thinking Katie is our great hope is living in fantasy town.

I hope you're wrong but I fear you're right.  Katie isn't dumb, and perhaps she isn't as stubborn as her father and can cede power and football decisions to someone not named Brown or Blackburn.  But, I'm afraid we'll just end up with Mike 2.0.  A younger, more efficient Mike.

(12-11-2018, 08:48 PM)McC Wrote: Anybody thinking Katie is our great hope is living in fantasy town.

I think Katie will be a different leader than her father, just like Mike Brown was different from Paul Brown.  

(12-11-2018, 09:01 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: I hope you're wrong but I fear you're right.  Katie isn't dumb, and perhaps she isn't as stubborn as her father and can cede power and football decisions to someone not named Brown or Blackburn.  But, I'm afraid we'll just end up with Mike 2.0.  A younger, more efficient Mike.

Who taught her everything she knows?

(12-11-2018, 09:01 PM)psychdoctor Wrote: I think Katie will be a different leader than her father, just like Mike Brown was different from Paul Brown.  

So she'll be worse?  How much lower can we go?

More likely scenario:

Mike Brown lives to be 114 out of sheer spite.

(12-11-2018, 08:48 PM)McC Wrote: Anybody thinking Katie is our great hope is living in fantasy town.

I like it. When we win, people were assuming that she was calling the shots behind the scenes.

Then, when we started losing again...she became the hope again!

When we win, Tobin is the great GM!

Now that we're bad...we need a GM!

It's funny. How many other businesses hide their org charts?

(12-11-2018, 09:50 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: More likely scenario:

Mike Brown lives to be 114 out of sheer spite.

That sucker will outlive the next 2 generations until the lazy kids today are parents of the future prison cities. Then he will walk away and laugh at all of us minions.

Katie will be left nothing.

(12-11-2018, 06:32 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Are you kidding me? That would cost a lot of money and I get the feeling the apple doesn't fall from the tree.....

Using this logic, then Mike should have been similar to Paul Brown.

Back to my OP remark. Whether fans like it or not, Mike Brown will hand the team over to Katie and I think it will within the next two years is my hope.

I would take anyone over Mike Brown.

(12-11-2018, 10:30 PM)psychdoctor Wrote: Back to my OP remark.  Whether fans like it or not, Mike Brown will hand the team over to Katie and I think it will within the next two years is my hope.  

I would take anyone over Mike Brown.

I wish he would hand the team over, but I don't see any reason he would. He most likely will stay at his post until his health fails him. Which could be a long time. I think he wants to stay in for a championship and he honestly believes stability is the best way to achieve that. 

And to a degree, I agree with him. The browns are the browns, in large part, because they reinvent the wheel every few years, have a new head coach every other season and a new qb every other game.

I think us fans are just screwed as long as anyone in that family still owns the team and pulls the strings. Unless greatness skips a generation.

Paul Brown- Great Football Mind
Mike Brown- WTF
Katie Blackburn- ? Like I said, hope it skips.

(12-11-2018, 10:26 PM)psychdoctor Wrote: Using this logic, then Mike should have been similar to Paul Brown.

Mike lacks the thing that Paul had in abundance--talent.