05-27-2022, 03:02 PM
(05-27-2022, 02:00 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Right on.
And many things have contributed to the Bengals bad reputation among the pundits over the years/decades. The dark age of the 90's and early 00's. Mike Brown's cheapness, a good bit of it was deserved. Mike Brown's swimming against the NFL tide in general on many issues.
Many ML lead teams getting embarrassed regularly in prime time. Marvin Lewis being owned by the Steelers for a decade and a half. All of Marvin's one and dones. Taking many players with checkered pasts. The what was it 06 ? Where we had so many bad headlines off the field. Just on and on.
If we were winning more a lot of that would get overlooked. But when you put out losing season after losing season it gets magnified. You just can't erase that in one foul swoop.
Except we pretty much had winning season after winning season from 2009-2015. The reality is that for some reason the Bengals are constantly pegged as a poor franchise that has a top 5 pick year after year. It's not the case, and it hasn't been that way for over 10 years.
