12-11-2017, 12:31 AM
(12-10-2017, 11:11 PM)GShake n Blake Wrote: I was thinking about this the other day. Marvin was a hot name in the media back then, but people forget that the Redskins hired him as a DC, passing him over as a HC to hire Steve Spurrier. Marv made a lateral move. So that just got me to thinking. Was Marv really a hot candidate to people that mattered? Why wasn't Marv hired by a team immediately after that record setting 2000 season? Or 2001? Why did he make a lateral move to the Redskins?
Just something to wonder about.
I'll admit, I loved the Marvin hire at the time. The 2003 offseason was by far my favorite offseason, it still is to this day. The excitement my 13 year-old self had back then has yet to be topped. We got the head coach I wanted (I remember giving my dad, a Giants fan, crap when they hired coughlin over Marvin... Whoops
), we got the college QB I DESPERATELY wanted (the man crush I had on Carson at USC was borderline disturbing 
), people in the media and NFL fans were loving the moves we made. I thought we were building a patriots/colts-like dynasty. And I believed that until the 2007 season. In 2008 I completely lost faith in Marvin. Even the anamoly that was the miraculous 2009 season didn't really sway me: Marvin seemed like a man in over his head. I said after the 2009 playoff debacle against the jets that Marvin would never win a playoff game and I was mercilessly ripped apart on the old boards for it. I wasn't happy that I was right, and I still wish to this day that Marv would prove me wrong but I think it's obvious now that he won't.
Fast forward to now, I want nothing more than to see the headline "Bengals part ways with Marvin Lewis". It's so sad... If somebody had told 13 year-old me that Marvin would still be coaching in 2017 and still not have one single playoff win (let alone a super bowl or two) I would have called them batshit crazy. But the reality of the future (now present) is just that: sickening reality.
