01-01-2019, 02:39 PM
(01-01-2019, 02:30 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: With the exception of the bold, I think you nailed it with this post.
My disagreement to the bolded statement lies in the front office did nothing to help out.
I think the mind set was Marvin is a great coach, and therefore can do it with lesser talent.
Marvin gets a good young team into position to make a run at the whole thing, and they don't retain the talent while adding pieces to get over the top. Instead the talen is replaced, one by one, with unproven or lesser players.
In my opinion, Marvin would have shown a higher ceiling had he landed with a different franchise.
I have a very long list of issues with Mike...but I'm not sure you can blame him for Marvin's teams looking totally unprepared and melting down in playoff games. I don't think you can blame him for Marvin seeming lost and bewildered in primetime and against the Steelers. Those seem like issues with the coach himself...and his problems with big game preparation, game planning, controlling his team, etc.
There is plenty of blame to put squarely on Mike, but there's also plenty that Marvin shares for his own coaching issues. When you combine the two of them, it's pretty easy to see why they were 0-7 in the postseason.
