C'mon Mike. Can't you do anything to pump up your fan base?

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(03-11-2017, 04:55 PM)Beaker Wrote: There's nothing he could do to "pump up" the people who demand to be pumped up.

Back in my halcyon Madison Avenue days we spent a decent amount of time building brand equity of clients via strategies based upon analyzing what the brand's competitors were doing and evaluating key aspects successful relevant brands had in common.  Mike Brown seems uninterested in adopting practices the more successful franchises have in common.

My perception is that he defines success in a very different manner than NFL players and NFL fans do.  It's rather unreasonable to think that putting a winner on the field is a top priority based upon his actions.  It's his business to run, but I can't dupe myself into thinking that he's really trying to win and just happens to come up short every single year he's been calling the shots.

The Bengals and the Pittsburgh Pirates are both similar (in my view) since they are teams run for success that isn't measured in championships and they just happen to catch lightning in a bottle occasionally BUT said lightning only leads to playoff participation.  So it goes.