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(01-08-2019, 01:04 PM)grampahol Wrote: I'm not 100% convinced that the mere notion of having worked under Marv ever in their lives consigns anyone to being life long losers.. It's not AS IF Marvin ever had some magical ability to make every coaching candidate think exactly the same way he ever did. It's kind of like saying a player was once on the Bengals roster therefor he can never succeed on another team because Marvin once was his head coach.
I want a clean break as much as anyone, but some of you have predetermined that there's no possibility of anyone who has ever had contact with Marvin Lewis can ever have even the slightest bit of independent thought. If Marvin has that kind of influence then he's much more powerful than anyone could even imagine. It's a bit like saying anyone who ever worked at Kmart should never be considered for advancement at any other company much less hired. Nope, they worked for losers therefore they'll never amount to ANYTHING...EVER.. Perhaps it goes up a tad higher up in the organization to the Brown family. If a guy ever swept floors at Paul Brown Stadium they should never be given the opportunity to mop floors anywhere else because they once worked under Mike Brown..  Is that how we should view everyone from now till the end of time?

Consider the notion of contamination by association.  It is called contiguity theory and goes back to the Bubonic Plague and survival.

In this case the disease of epic failure is Mike Brown.  Lewis and current coaching staff suffer similar contamination disease.  As long as there is temporal relationship between Mike Brown, Lewis, and assistant coaches there is the belief they are all related and diseased proned to fail.