Marvin Lewis Number 1 failure

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(10-06-2016, 03:50 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Which coach is worse, one that goes 0-1 in postseason or one that goes 0-7?

 
He was talking about the postseason.

Which regular season coach is better? One that goes 1-0 or the one that's 7-0?

(10-06-2016, 07:52 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Of the 32 HC in the NFL...

-8 haven't been a HC for even 2 full seasons yet.

Of those remaining 24...

-7 have won a Super Bowl.

Of those remaining 17...

-3 have been to a Super Bowl.



That leaves Marv in a pool of 14 HC who have coached at least 2 full seasons in their career, but haven't won a SB. Mediocre Marv will forever be Mediocre Marv.

A few years ago - in response to a similar claim by Fred - I made up a grading system for season success and compared Marvin's Bengals tenure to the rest of the NFL from 2003 to 2013 (?). The grading system went like this:

+8 for 12+ wins 
+5 for 10-11 wins
+3 for 9 wins
0 for 8-8
-3 for 7 wins
-5 for 5-6 wins
-8 for 4 wins or less

+10 pts for division title
+10 for each playoff win
+50 for a Super Bowl title

Marvin's "success" ranked 20th compared to the rest of the league during that time frame. I still plan on updating that list at some point. It was a crap ton of work though, and all Marv apologists did was criticize the grading system anyway.