Why are we ALWAYS blaming Marvin Lewis?

[Crowe]

(12-18-2016, 10:32 PM)MC Howley Wrote: Can some people cut the dude some SLACK... He is our GM, runs our drafts, coaches our players.... has kept continuity.... Pushed Mike Brown out of the decision making... and been a staple for our team that just made the playoffs 5 years in a row.

Now lets be realistic... Yes we made the playoffs 5 years in a row... But we had MASSIVE changes this year that were huge hurdles to overcome...

AND on top of all of this below, we won the AFC North, so we were playing with a 1st place schedule!

Are people forgetting all of the below......?

1. Losing our Offensive Coordinator Hue Jackson to the Cleveland Browns
2. Losing Leon Hall to the New York Giants
3. Losing Reggie Nelson to the Oakland Raiders
4. Losing Andre Smith to the Minnesota Vikings
5. Losing Marvin Jones Jr. to the Detroit Lions (currently has 46 receptions for 797 yards and 4 TDs)
6. Losing Mohammed Sanu to the Atlanta Falcons (currently has 49 receptions for 521 yards and 3 TDs)
7. Losing Brandon Tate to the Buffalo Bills
8. Not having Vontaze Burfict for the first 3 games of the season
9. Not having Tyler Eifert for the first 6 games of the season, injured in the Pro-Bowl
10. Andy Dalton coming off of sitting the last 8 games of 2015 due to a thumb injury
11. 1st round draft pick William Jackson III injured before season begins
12. 4th round draft pick Andrew Billings injured before season begins
13. Our spark plug on offense and consistent producer Giovani Bernard injured week 11
14. Our best player and offensive PLAYMAKER AJ Green injured week 11
    

In the end, Marvin Lewis fought for change and is the MAIN reason we have good drafts, he is the main reason we have consistency, and he is the main reason we have a culture shift where ELITE TALENT players like AJ Green are saying I WANT TO STAY HERE.. Stay here as in, be a Cincinnati Bengal for the rest of his career.

Does anyone else remember when Marvin Lewis first showed up and he said leave if you don't want to be here and Takeo Spikes literally sprinted out of the door? Does anyone else remember Chad Johnson and Carson Palmer demanding their ways out of town? Or Corey Dillon flicking off our fans in Paul Brown Stadium?

Yes this year sucked, but I guarantee about 15-20 other teams in the NFL would kill to have our roster, our programs consistency, and our winning percentage over the past 6 years.

Sure it would be awesome to have Jon Gruden or some high profile coach, but Mike Brown is never going to do that, we have Marvin, he wants to win here, and the players aren't demanding their way out with him as our leader.

This year sucked but with everything that happened, its not all MARVIN LEWIS'S fault... The same guy who has groomed Mike Zimmer who the Minnesota Vikings fanbase think is the second coming of Jesus... and Jay Gruden who has been doing wonders with Kirk Cousins and the Redskins... And last but not least, Hue Jackson.

I believe in Marvin.. but our PRO FOOTBALL team is also run like a small family business... Yes, the Patriots have an owner who also owns Kraft Cheese... So he gives people the ability to run their football team... We don't... I'm pretty sure Mike Browns whole family have important jobs... Just as if they were running a local hardware company thats been passed down for generations.. Do they deserve those jobs? Lets call for some of them to be fired before Marvin. At least Marvin has done things I love and is held accountable publicly.

Because he's been the one constant in the equation of ineptness that has plagued this team.