The Mike and Marvin Show an Epic Fail

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(11-20-2018, 07:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This makes no sense.  Teams that are poorly coached make the same mistakes all through games.

Generally speaking, even when the Bengals are on, they make enough mistakes to keep our opponents in the game.  For example, look at the first Baltimore game this year where we're killing them the whole first half, get overaggressive with a 3 TD lead right before the half, go 3 & out without burning any clock, and the Ravens drive for a TD to get back in the game.  They take penalties that short circuit drives.  They miss FG's.  They shank punts.  They blow coverages.  They drop balls. Etc, etc.

Seriously, when has anyone ever seen this team play a good, solid 60 minute game against a top opponent under Marvin?  Maybe the second Steelers game in '05?  That's why this team has been so bad in primetime, in the playoffs, and against playoff teams under Marvin.  You have to play 60 good minutes of football to win in the playoffs unless you get very lucky.  Under Marvin, you're lucky to get 30.  That's on the coaches to game plan and motivate the players.  We either come out hot, fail to keep up with the opponent's adjustments, and are clinging to the lead like Wile E. Coyote at the end or do nothing the first half, then decide maybe towards the end of the 3rd quarter we should play a little football.

You're saying he hasn't had the talent to be successful, but it almost never feels like Marvin and company outcoached the other coaches.  It never feels like we won because of Marvin.  It feels like we win in spite of Marvin.  I mean, in '05, we had the eventual SB champs on the ropes at halftime with our backup QB.  We all know the story.  The locker room imploded at halftime and we got stomped the entire 2nd half.  If we could've outplayed them for a half, we could've outplayed them for a game IF Marvin could have kept the team's emotions in check, but he couldn't.

He's had 2 franchise QB's.  He's had HoF caliber players.  He's had Pro Bowlers at every position except C and K.  Is talent REALLY the issue?  Every team in the league has holes.  What a good coach does is play to their strengths and camouflage their weaknesses.