Mike Brown I love You.

[Shake n Blake]

(12-03-2018, 04:37 PM)psychdoctor Wrote: All of the injuries that the Bengals have had this year is a reasonable excuse and has impacted the team.  Losing Eifert hurt. This team is a shell of itself compared to the start of the season.  But the team did not adequately address the glaring issues of the O-Line and the linebacker position.  Most fans on this forum had questions and concerns regarding the O-Line for sure.  But I did not anticipate how poorly the defense would play under Austin.  Austin was Marvin's guy.  Austin was a disaster.   

Even if the team performed poorly at the start of the season with a healthy roster I still do not believe it would change Mike Browns approach.  He is the owner/GM and has been a disaster since he took over in the 1990's but it is what it is.  

From Mike Brown's perspective, injuries provides a rational logical excuse for another losing season.  If that doesn't work Brown will argue that 31 other teams in the NFL fail to obtain the top goal of winning the Super Bowl.  It will not end until Mike Brown moves on.  

For what? Certainly not for the defense allowing 31.5 points/game, because it's been that bad from jump...and that is our main problem this year. 

Eifert is a walking body cast. If the hopes of our season were riding on him, we're fools. This team got lucky, won some squeakers, and now we're leveling out to what we really are (a 7-9 team with stale coaching). This team has a LOT of problems, and pinning it all on injuries is flat out wrong. Sure, now we're without Dalton/Green and losing is to be expected. That said, the slide of this team was apparent before those 2 got hurt. 

We won some close games on lucky turnovers or game winning drives early...and that put a nice pretty coat of paint over the ugly issues. They started biting us in losses to Pitt and the blowout to KC. It's only continued from there, and we only had relatively average injuries at that point. I know this is the excuse that will come from Mike Brown and will be parroted by the forever-hopeful...and that's what's so frustrating about it.

I've been around a long time, and I know better. It's beyond time for change.