10-10-2016, 03:14 PM
Marvin all but earned the "Job For Life" title in 2005. His first two seasons in '03 and '04 he went 8-8. Those seasons came on the heels of the atrocity that was the 90's (Shula and Coslet) and very early 2000's under the LeBeau regime. He next followed those years up with the 2005 season which had both the fans and franchise reliving the magic of '88 and allowed both to dare to realistically dream about holding a Lombardi, (we won't go down the road of what ended up happening that season).
Point is after that 2005 season I believe the thought in and around the organization was Lewis is the guy and will be the guy until Lewis himself wants out. A clunker or two of a season will be tolerated or all but brushed aside as Marvin has pulled us out of the embarrassing sh*t-storm that was the decade+ prior.
Mike Brown is really not interested in moving on from Lewis and this may be born out of equal parts laziness and fear. One way of thinking is what many of us fans subscribe to, and that is the franchise may be just one head coach hire away from a championship or at the very least a substantial upgrade from yearly one-and-done exits from the postseason.
The other way is that we also may be one hire away from returning to being THE laughingstock of the NFL. The result of that is maintaining the status-quo and just living with Lewis be it good, bad or ugly. Lewis is just "good enough" during the season and that means he is just "good enough" for this organization because it could be worse right? The latter of which is seems to be the one that Mike Brown operates on.
Just my two cents.
Point is after that 2005 season I believe the thought in and around the organization was Lewis is the guy and will be the guy until Lewis himself wants out. A clunker or two of a season will be tolerated or all but brushed aside as Marvin has pulled us out of the embarrassing sh*t-storm that was the decade+ prior.
Mike Brown is really not interested in moving on from Lewis and this may be born out of equal parts laziness and fear. One way of thinking is what many of us fans subscribe to, and that is the franchise may be just one head coach hire away from a championship or at the very least a substantial upgrade from yearly one-and-done exits from the postseason.
The other way is that we also may be one hire away from returning to being THE laughingstock of the NFL. The result of that is maintaining the status-quo and just living with Lewis be it good, bad or ugly. Lewis is just "good enough" during the season and that means he is just "good enough" for this organization because it could be worse right? The latter of which is seems to be the one that Mike Brown operates on.
Just my two cents.
