The Mike and Marvin Show an Epic Fail

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(11-20-2018, 04:24 PM)fredtoast Wrote: That team was smoke and mirrors.  After Chris Henry went down with injury in the 8th game our entire offense collapsed.  Through the first 9 weeks of the season (8 games) we had the #12 offense.  Over the last 8 games our offense was ranked dead last.  

After we lost Henry we beat the Steelers without scoring a single offensive TD.  After that we went 3-5 with no wins over a team better than 5-11.  We struggled to beat the 4-12 Chiefs in week 16 needing a td in the final 2 minutes to win.

Just making the playoffs was an impressive feat for Marvin that year.  A majority of our O-line was undrafted free agents with no starting experience (Cook, Living, Roland), we had no receiving threat at TE (Foschi, Coats) or RB (Benson) and after Henry went down we only had one decent WR.



We had a team that was predicted to be the worst in the entire league.  Houston had the #2 defense in the league and the #2 rushing attack.  They were a 4 point favorite playing at home.

Again, Marvin should be praised for even making the playoffs with that team.

The Bengals had the league's #4 defense in '09.  You don't really want to start talking about offensive weapons when Jericho Cotchery was the Jets' #1 WR and the Bengals let the Jets backup RB, Shon.Greene, put 130+ on them that game.  Cole's was an ok #2 for Palmer.  The OL you're down on helped Benson rack up over 160 yards rushing on the #1 defense in the league.  The Bengals had a better team.  They were at home.  The Jets had a bust rookie QB.  The Bengals got to scout them the week prior in a game they had no stake in, but the Jets had to win to get in.  It doesn't get any better than that, but they were outcoached and they lost.

The Texans game is more debatable, but they let a 3rd string QB hang over 30 on them.  That team was not ready to play.