Rebuilding Plan

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(12-11-2017, 01:43 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: It’s painfully obvious the Bengals are coming to the end of an era.  God bless Marvin Lewis, his family, and his wonderful Foundation.  Marvin took the Bengals from rejected to respectable and all Bengaldom owes him a debt of gratitude.  He will leave Cincinnati as the winningest coach in Bengal history with his head held high.  

Marvin Lewis was our Moses:  He led the Bengals from the NFL version of slavery in Egypt to the borders of the Promised Land but, like Moses, Marvin will never enter it.  We need our NFL version of Joshua who did enter the Promised Land.  I have some ideas on who that might be.

Rebuilding starts with a new head coach who needs the autonomy to select his own coordinators who, in turn, need autonomy to select their own position coaches.  My personal opinion is most of the coaching staff should be former Bengal players who excelled at their positions. The entire scouting department needs an enema and a fresh treatment with probiotics.  The scouts need to be personally selected by the head coach and the three coordinators.  

This plan won’t come together overnight nor even by next season or the next.  The team must be rebuilt from the trenches out, Paul Brown style, with only the best players who fit the new scheme drafted or brought in via free agency.  Such a team won’t win right away — but once everything is in place the team will win and do so consistently which brings me to the hardest thing to write:

The current stars on the Cincinnati roster must be given the options to enter free agency or be traded.  They don’t have to take it but I don’t want Bengal standouts like AJ Green, Carlos Dunlap, Geno Atkins, Vontaze Burfict, Joe Mixon, and yes, Andy Dalton too, to have to play on a rebuilding team if they want to go win elsewhere.  They sweated through hard times and gave their all so if these great men can’t get a ring here, I’m not opposed to them winning it all elsewhere.  Those guys I mentioned would be solid contributors on any roster in the league.

The new coach and coordinators need to devise a winning scheme in all three phases of the game and stick to it:  Balanced offense, disruptive defense, and opportunistic special teams.  The great teams might adjust scheme but they don’t change scheme.  New England and Pittsburgh play the same schemes every week and usually win.

It’s going to hurt.  But if the Bengals want to win, no pain means no gain.

None of this makes a damn bit of sense. 

1. I've paid my debt with my fanhood and all that encompasses. I don't owe Marv jack shit. Matter of fact, he has a debt that he can't pay. 

2. Coordinators don't select their own position coaches. Ideally, the HC does that. A lot of times it's done in conjunction with a GM.

3. You didn't even mention a GM. Mike Brown needs to get his ass out of the equation. Whoever takes over the franchise needs to find the best qualified, at least somewhat proven, person to head the job. Then that GM, sometimes in conjunction with the owner/president of football operations finds a HC. 

4. The scouting department isn't a colon. They're people that shouldn't be picked by the new HC because that's not what head coaches do. That's the job of the front office/director of football operations. As well, completely changing an established team, from front office to position coaches has never been done in the NFL, for good reason. 

5. Shit rolls downhill. You can't have 4 people, HC + 3 coordinators, making so many decisions like it's a democracy. 

6. Players have contracts and NO ONE just gives them a free pass to be free agents and go somewhere else simply because they're so kindhearted and want them to do well because they're such "great men". 

7. Again, you don't have a coach committee making all these decisions. You just mentioned Pitt and NE as examples. They don't do anything like you're proposing. 

This plan has failure written all over it from the very beginning and would make the Bengals seem even more clueless than the Browns in how to run an NFL franchise. 

I'm not even going to comment on how if Marv leaves with his head held high, he's even more clueless to his complete lack of self-awareness in his inability to prepare a team for games that mean the most--prime time, division rivals, playoffs--than i could ever imagine.