We might need to start trading star players...

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(11-28-2018, 04:54 PM)samhain Wrote: I think there's a pretty good chance he's out if the embarrassment of the last 3 weeks continues.

Paul Dehner was on the 1530 ESPN afternoon show yesterday and had some interesting insights.  He said that when Marvin was re-hired after last season, the people running the organization truly believed that the fans would eventually swallow it and get on board.  They didn't expect a half-empty stadium with Cleveland fans audibly barking on TV in November at PBS.  

I wouldn't be shocked if this were the case.  I went to the Baltimore game, ie a prime time game early in the year when enthusiasm was still relatively high after the win in Indy.  The place was pretty barren compared to even recent years when attendance was in decline.  People have cancelled season tickets and nobody really cares to go and watch that product any longer.  

Does Mike care?  My automatic response is no, but I'm not 100 percent on that anymore.  Have you ever seen a season where the team took out such a massive advertising campaign as they did with the "Sieze the Day" barrage?  Those commercials were on every other minute when camp opened, and looked like someone put effort into them.  Not normal.  

I think they were too arrogant and too optimistic about the Marvin re-hire.  Now they're quite possibly about to see the worst case scenario unfold over the next few weeks.  They may actually feel compelled to act this time.

This could all be true.  But the replacement already being here will just give more of the same and possibly even worse.