If we don't make the postseason...

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(10-10-2016, 02:03 PM)THE Bigzoman Wrote: I doubt it.

Marvin Lewis would Be a hot commodity in the open market if he ever decided to leave.

Honestly, I think Marvin Lewis is a good HC. He's well respected in the community, and there was a survey showing that people were surprised that he hasn't won a SB.

What scares me about a Post Marvin lewis era is that it's possible that he's the only one that can work with Mike brown. Even though Mike Brown ***** every coach on his staff, other coaches, better or worse, might find themselves in positions where they do worse.

If ML is fired or resigns before Brown croaks, do you see Brown granting a new HC the same power it took Lewis over a decade to get? No way.

So if Marvin is such a hot commodity why does he continue to take extremely favorable contracts from an owner he's publicly blamed for putting the team behind the eight ball?  Your entire mindset (while understandable) proves my take on this situation:  it's like a marriage that isn't great but god help us, we aren't perfect either and if we get a divorce we'll just have to go through asset separation and lawyers and get back on the dating scene and may very well just end up with someone worse than the person we aren't happy with.

Status quo.  Marvin let it win after 2010, but I guess the fact that Mike Brown didn't insist on drafting Mallet over Dalton shows that a mere decade of bending over for someone can soften the hardest of hearts. 

So my question, if Marvin is such a hot commodity and crucial to what amount of relative success we have then why does he let Mike Brown keep him under his thumb like this?  I think Marvin is a ho-hum coach who was a great hire over a decade ago who eventually grew to not like where he is/was and he was given a few token concessions in order to keep him quiet.  But I'll agree, we're probably even more fudged if he left.  It was post-2010 or never, says I. The bed has been made.