11-13-2018, 06:42 PM
(11-13-2018, 06:23 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: With all that’s going on in Cincinnati this week, I would like to take a chance to thank the Front Office for having a sense of urgency. This is highly unusual and countercultural to Bengal history. Still, I like it, I appreciate it, and I want to see more of it. To make changes like this, you know, big wholesale changes during a winning season and a playoff run, is highly unusual. This takes guts, vision, and risk.
Maybe, just maybe, Mike Brown wants to win. I haven’t seen this sort of out of the box thinking since Sam Wyche was the head coach. Let’s hope Marvin Lewis can take the Cincinnati defense several levels higher than it currently performs.
This season isn’t lost.
Is the recycling of Hue Jackson -- for yet another go round -- really to be considered a counter cultural move for Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis? It seems rather par for the course, as it were.
The firing of Mr. Austin took neither guts, vision or risk as you state. He oversaw a unit that was destined to claim it's place as the worst defense in the storied history of the NFL. They were forced -- by the reality of the situation -- to make the change.
Although I don't agree that the changes were in any way "outside the box thinking", I most certainly hope they work out in way that helps this team right the ship and get back on course.
