(11-22-2018, 10:29 PM)McC Wrote: Others will undoubtedly keep playing your goofy little game but I'm taking myself out.  You win, or whatever the hell it is you're trying to do.  Troll on.

(11-22-2018, 10:20 PM)Nately120 Wrote: So we are siding with the players this time?

(11-22-2018, 10:54 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: Hell no.

This whole team sucks.  Get with the program.  At least until AJ gets back.  Even that's debatable. :andy:

(11-22-2018, 10:40 AM)Trademark Wrote:

“I want to play to WIN. I’m tired of playing not to lose. We have the talent to do that”- Joe Mixon

— Elise Jesse (@Elise_JesseWLWT) November 21, 2018

Maybe this might light a fire under the team. Then again Marvin will probably bench Joe for the rest of the year

(11-22-2018, 07:43 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Why does everyone assume he's talking about Marvin? Seems to me he's talking about the players on the field.

(11-22-2018, 11:58 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: He's not talking about the players because he said "we have the talent to do that". It's on the coaches to use the talent properly, not run the same basic, vanilla formations and plays time after time. 

He's probably been watching KC, LA and NO and wondering why the Bengals don't employ some of the same concepts. 

(11-22-2018, 12:42 PM)McC Wrote: Marvin has never been ripped for being too aggressive, mainly because it's something he has literally never been.  And the winning play in the Steelers game was on Austin and it was not aggressive, it was just plain stupid.  Burfict even said so.

(11-22-2018, 11:58 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: He's not talking about the players because he said "we have the talent to do that". It's on the coaches to use the talent properly, not run the same basic, vanilla formations and plays time after time. 

He's probably been watching KC, LA and NO and wondering why the Bengals don't employ some of the same concepts. 

(11-22-2018, 12:52 PM)McC Wrote:   Maybe instead of snarky little comments about how others see the whole mess, you might prove how they're wrong.

(11-22-2018, 06:27 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Welll that is pretty stupid because Marvin has never lost a game by being too conservative with run plays on offense.

But he lost to the Steelers this year when he went for a td instead of running the ball because he was svcared of the Steelers coming back, and then on defense he lost on an all out blitz on defense.

And he lost to the Bucs in 2010 because he was throwing the ball at the end of the game instead of running out the clock.

(11-23-2018, 01:34 AM)bfine32 Wrote: He actually said we just got to go out there and do it. Stop talking about it.

Folks want to say he's calling out Marvin, because that's what they want him to do. He very well could be talking about team leaders that run their mouths but then don't leave it all on the field. 

Don't worry: Folks have already started the "team has quit on Marvin" narrative again this year

(11-23-2018, 01:42 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I may, or may not be part of that crowd.  So, let me ask you this one question.  Do you still think that Marvin Lewis is the right man for the HC job of the Cincinnati Bengals?

(11-23-2018, 01:48 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I would have liked to have seen him replaced at the end of last season; but it didn't happen. But until we are eliminated from playoff contention this year; I'll say yes. 

(11-22-2018, 12:35 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote:
To me it sounds more like he's calling out teammates as well.

Playing a full game with winning intensity/energy and not letting off the gas.

It's not all on coaching from that quote IMO.

(11-23-2018, 10:56 AM)jfkbengals Wrote: That is exactly what he was doing.

The article stated he was telling his teammates to play to win, not telling them the coaches were not doing so.

The thread title is straight click bait...

(11-23-2018, 03:30 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: People could read into it as much as they want.

It was taken out of a conversation, not like he tweeted it, and didn't even allude to coaching.

Quote:Running back Joe Mixon hasn’t been called on much lately with 23 carries in the last two games without A.J. Green in the lineup. But he’s keeping the faith. Along with a message to his mates. He thinks in the past few weeks a sense of playing not to lose has seeped into the games.

“We all know A.J. is a great player but somebody has to be willing to do that role. I’m sure we have guys like that,” Mixon said. “I have confidence in everyone in this building … I’m ready to do whatever with whomever. We’re going to be fine. We just have to go out there to win. Stop playing not to lose. We have to go out there to win.”

(11-22-2018, 12:29 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: Have you ever played any casino games like craps?

Playing not to lose would be only playing the pass line. 

Playing to win is throwing that money down, knowing you may lose big, but hey, you gotta go big to win big.

The key to this analogy is that much like playing against the house, the Bengals almost always lose 

(11-22-2018, 11:58 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: He's not talking about the players because he said "we have the talent to do that". It's on the coaches to use the talent properly, not run the same basic, vanilla formations and plays time after time. 

He's probably been watching KC, LA and NO and wondering why the Bengals don't employ some of the same concepts. 

(11-23-2018, 04:41 PM)Wyche Wrote: I read the entire conversation earlier today.....he was calling out players.  He may have been hinting at coaching a little, but it was definitely player related.  That said, I still like it.  Mixon has given great effort when his number has been called, and even went back into the first Baltimore game to put it on ice when he actually needed surgery.