How Marvin Lewis bungled his message to the players

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(12-20-2017, 06:38 PM)depthchart Wrote: One article said the Bengals Front Office was caught by surprise at what Lewis said and that they may have expected Lewis to possibly enter into contract negotiations after the season to remain as Head Coach.

If the above is true, then the ball was in Lewis' court as whether to return or not.

Lewis may have back peddled from his comments because he wants to keep the option of him returning on the table.

Maybe he said to much or said which way he was Leaning, however, he is still indecisive about what he is really going to do.

Possibly trying to keep all of his options in place by back peddling and calling the story untrue ?

I don't know why anyone here would be surprised if he did this.  After the 2010 season he publicly stated he wasn't going to remain the coach here unless certain changes were made and then he caved-in and stuck around for another blissful 7 (at least!) seasons.  This time if he says he's going to go and then sticks around we might not have a player demanding a trade to take the attention off of it.

Marvin's done this before, folks.  Prepare yourself for the worst, just in case.