(11-13-2018, 06:23 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: With all that’s going on in Cincinnati this week, I would like to take a chance to thank the Front Office for having a sense of urgency. This is highly unusual and countercultural to Bengal history. Still, I like it, I appreciate it, and I want to see more of it. To make changes like this, you know, big wholesale changes during a winning season and a playoff run, is highly unusual. This takes guts, vision, and risk.

Maybe, just maybe, Mike Brown wants to win. I haven’t seen this sort of out of the box thinking since Sam Wyche was the head coach. Let’s hope Marvin Lewis can take the Cincinnati defense several levels higher than it currently performs.

This season isn’t lost.

(11-13-2018, 08:20 PM)Lucidus Wrote: I agree with you about the firing of Alexander to a large extent. I honestly did not think it would happen, yet it did and I was very pleased with that. I think that situation also falls into what I was attempting to say earlier with Austin, in that it had become so blatantly bad that they reached the point of no return and were forced to finally make the move. I was extremely impressed with the signings of Van Pelt and Pollack.

I must admit that the "open your eyes" comment did touch somewhat of a nerve , but only because before joining this forum, I had previously spent time in a Bengals group on Facebook where that was a greatly overused assertion. If you disagreed with some in any way, or offered an alternative view of things, you were deemed as "blind" or needing to "open your eyes".

I am still in the process of feeling this forum out and assessing how different posters approach conversation, but I must say that I'm already enjoying the overall atmosphere here much more than I ever did in my previous home for Bengals discussion. 

(11-13-2018, 08:20 PM)Lucidus Wrote: I agree with you about the firing of Alexander to a large extent. I honestly did not think it would happen, yet it did and I was very pleased with that. I think that situation also falls into what I was attempting to say earlier with Austin, in that it had become so blatantly bad that they reached the point of no return and were forced to finally make the move. I was extremely impressed with the signings of Van Pelt and Pollack.

I must admit that the "open your eyes" comment did touch somewhat of a nerve , but only because before joining this forum, I had previously spent time in a Bengals group on Facebook where that was a greatly overused assertion. If you disagreed with some in any way, or offered an alternative view of things, you were deemed as "blind" or needing to "open your eyes".

I am still in the process of feeling this forum out and assessing how different posters approach conversation, but I must say that I'm already enjoying the overall atmosphere here much more than I ever did in my previous home for Bengals discussion. 

(11-13-2018, 06:23 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: With all that’s going on in Cincinnati this week, I would like to take a chance to thank the Front Office for having a sense of urgency. This is highly unusual and countercultural to Bengal history. Still, I like it, I appreciate it, and I want to see more of it. To make changes like this, you know, big wholesale changes during a winning season and a playoff run, is highly unusual. This takes guts, vision, and risk.  

Maybe, just maybe, Mike Brown wants to win.  I haven’t seen this sort of out of the box thinking since Sam Wyche was the head coach.  Let’s hope Marvin Lewis can take the Cincinnati defense several levels higher than it currently performs.  

This season isn’t lost.

(11-13-2018, 06:46 PM)Gamma Ray Tan Wrote: No offense, but this was textbook Mike Brown. A safe, familiar, cheap solution.

(11-14-2018, 12:08 AM)Bengalsrob Wrote: OP is correct, at least we done something! Hardly earth shattering and the end result was somewhat predictable; BUT...we ARE still incredibly in the playoff race...so let's see what happens!

(11-13-2018, 07:20 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Just as I thought.  SOME OF the same people who whine and cry about the Bengals not doing anything still whine and cry when they do something.

Marvin could win 3 Super Bowls in a row and some people here would be just be whining and crying about why he waited so long and how "a real coach" would have won 6 in a row.

(11-13-2018, 07:20 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Just as I thought.  SOME OF the same people who whine and cry about the Bengals not doing anything still whine and cry when they do something.

Marvin could win 3 Super Bowls in a row and some people here would be just be whining and crying about why he waited so long and how "a real coach" would have won 6 in a row.

(11-13-2018, 08:10 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Right, because there were so many other quality coaches available to fill a huge hole on our staff.

It is hard to bring in a stranger mid season to hit the ground running knowing exactly what the HC wants/needs.


Hue was just what we needed.  And it has nothing to do with him becoming HC.  We heard that before and it turned out to be BS. 

(11-13-2018, 07:20 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Just as I thought.  SOME OF the same people who whine and cry about the Bengals not doing anything still whine and cry when they do something.

Marvin could win 3 Super Bowls in a row and some people here would be just be whining and crying about why he waited so long and how "a real coach" would have won 6 in a row.

(11-14-2018, 12:39 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Fred, wake me up when Merv wins 3 Super Bowls.......

(11-14-2018, 02:19 PM)I_C_DeadPeople Wrote: No kidding, Marvin could not even win the Bud Bowl. He would be clapping and all the dogs would get confused. 

(11-13-2018, 06:23 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: With all that’s going on in Cincinnati this week, I would like to take a chance to thank the Front Office for having a sense of urgency. This is highly unusual and countercultural to Bengal history. Still, I like it, I appreciate it, and I want to see more of it. To make changes like this, you know, big wholesale changes during a winning season and a playoff run, is highly unusual. This takes guts, vision, and risk.  

Maybe, just maybe, Mike Brown wants to win.  I haven’t seen this sort of out of the box thinking since Sam Wyche was the head coach.  Let’s hope Marvin Lewis can take the Cincinnati defense several levels higher than it currently performs.  

This season isn’t lost.