11-21-2016, 11:38 AM
(11-21-2016, 10:43 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: You're not getting Gruden or Cowher here. Mike Brown would have to pay them an excessive amount of money and give them complete control of the franchise. Neither of those are happening.I agree completely with all of this.......so.....and many of you will hate this......Keep Marvin Lewis and his 6 play-off seasons in 8 years. .....We should have promoted Zimmer and we didn't....Keep Lewis and see if he can bring in coaches and turn it around in 2017. ....The Bengals were one of the deepest benches in NFL but that is no longer the case....They should have made Lewis GM and Zimmer Head Coach, but they blew that one.....Who knows, maybe Cleveland fires Hue and we get Hue Jackson back. ......Maybe after 5 straight play-off seasons we were due for a bad year. ....Maybe under Marvin some coach really does good like Zimmer, and we promote him to Head Coach....
This is a franchise that doesn't use free agency heavily. Also, the coaches are scouts here due to a small scouting staff. The owner and his family heavily weigh in on personnel decisions. Cowher and Gruden have had much more attractive jobs offerred to them that they turned down.
Quite frankly, with AJ Green and Bernard hurt...this roster needs rebuilt. There are many holes.
Age of Whitworth and Peko a factor in rebuilding. Dansby just another LB band aid. .....A Top Pick Left Tackle, A Top pick Linebacker. .....but I agree we lost depth across the board....We can not keep both Dalton and McCarron, and exploring a great trade for one of them has to be considered.
1968 Bengal Fan
