(01-03-2018, 02:52 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: This board is hilarious at times.

After we fired Lazor, we went 7-7.

Is that great? No, but it's also not like we're back in the 90s.

We were two games out of the playoffs, with four games being decided by four points or less.

Is that great? No, but we have a lot of positive things on this team and a lot we can build on.

Am I happy about Marvin being back? Of course not, but it's tough to lure quality coaches to this franchise.

We have a quality team that we can build through the draft and maybe even free agency, and then we can make a run at a playoff run.

We have a talented core and we just beat a good Ravens team that was playing for their season.

(01-03-2018, 12:13 PM)Captain Happy Pants Wrote: The problem is, yeah we might go 12-4 next year but Marvin will find another way to lose in the post season, if we’re that lucky.  We’ll get sweeped by the Steelers AGAIN and lose to a wild card team AT BEST.

THATS the reason people mailed it in already.  We’ve read this story for 15 years.  If you don’t know the plot by now you never will.

Again, hope I’m wrong.  But the realist in me won’t let me get my hopes up

(01-03-2018, 02:52 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: This board is hilarious at times.

After we fired Lazor, we went 7-7.  

Is that great?  No, but it's also not like we're back in the 90s.  

We were two games out of the playoffs, with four games being decided by four points or less.

Is that great?  No, but we have a lot of positive things on this team and a lot we can build on.

Am I happy about Marvin being back?  Of course not, but it's tough to lure quality coaches to this franchise.

We have a quality team that we can build through the draft and maybe even free agency, and then we can make a run at a playoff run.

We have a talented core and we just beat a good Ravens team that was playing for their season.

(01-03-2018, 11:11 AM)jj22 Wrote: The other Ohio team went 1-16 in 2016 and 0-16 in 2017. Yet the Bengals are the laughing stock of the league today.

We are who they said we were. The Bungles. Nothing has changed. This generation is seeing what many of us saw in this inept organization last decade.

Hopefully you guys don't expect our star players (AJ) to magically feel better about this team. He'll be moping around, slumping his shoulders, and half assing it for the final years of his time here. He knows what we know. This team isn't going anywhere, and with Marvins return, the window barely cracked is officially shut.

Everyone knows how this is going to turn out (like we knew how this season would turn out after losing all the talent we have) but Mike Brown and his useless family.

(01-03-2018, 11:19 AM)Graphicguy Wrote: I have some issues with this whole thread.  We go off the charts when our team, the CINCINNATI BENGALS, are called the other “B Word” by other fans or the media.  Yet, here we are perpetrating the same nomenclature readily.

I don’t care if you love or hate Marvin Lewis.  I don’t care if you love or hate Mike Brown.  I don’t care if you love or hate Andy Dalton.  

But, this team is ours.  If you don’t like it, choose another team to follow.  Follow the Vikings, or the Colts.  But, to denigrate the local hometown team tells me more about you, than your name calling tells me about the. Bengals.

Rant Over!

(01-03-2018, 11:42 AM)CanadianBengal Wrote: The Bengals were 7-9 and I cannot believe that was seen as an acceptable outcome before the season begun. Marvin and the coaches were all left on a one year contract for a reason. I assume it was a "show me contract" from Mike Brown. What we saw this year was the same issues that have plagued this team for years. 

-undisciplined play
-becoming unravelled at key times
-poor adjustments at half time
- ultra conservative play calling when in the lead
- sticking with underperforming vets

Even the benefits of this year - the emergence of young players - is overshadowed by organizational failure. WJIII and Dennard emerge however management chose to extend Dre instead of an O-lineman. Cedric and Fisher did not progres. The failure to properly assess their own young players doomed this season. 

The benefits of scoring on later picks gets overshadowed by having top ten pick that not only does not contribute but gets embarrassed publicly by the coach.

Marvin has had time and opportunity to succeed but the team is regressing. Change needed to happen. It is actually unfathomable to me that MB sees this as a smart or positive move. 

(01-03-2018, 12:20 PM)McC Wrote: The Endless Deja Vu.  Round and round we go, like a tourist stuck on a Boston rotary.

(01-03-2018, 12:39 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Dan Fouts is the happiest man on earth right now.  He still has the Bengals to kick around.

(01-03-2018, 02:52 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: This board is hilarious at times.

After we fired Lazor, we went 7-7.  

Is that great?  No, but it's also not like we're back in the 90s.  

We were two games out of the playoffs, with four games being decided by four points or less.

Is that great?  No, but we have a lot of positive things on this team and a lot we can build on.

Am I happy about Marvin being back?  Of course not, but it's tough to lure quality coaches to this franchise.

We have a quality team that we can build through the draft and maybe even free agency, and then we can make a run at a playoff run.

We have a talented core and we just beat a good Ravens team that was playing for their season.