ZT Raves About Bengals Owner Mike Brown

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(03-30-2019, 02:03 PM)I_C_DeadPeople Wrote: Was thinking the same thing this morning. Those 5 playoff appearances are actually bad for the franchise because Mikey sees them as successes, he can say his 'model' works because it has in the past. So why change it. 

"Imagine IF like mid-1990 the Bengals hire a GM like John Dorsey. Law of averages state they probably have 4-5 playoff wins right now and a Super Bowl appearance over that span." And if he had done this his franchise would be worth another $500 million or so. Which is why he is a dumb businessman. 

You hear about the 5 playoff appearances in a row from the homers on the board a lot. It does indicate that we're not among the worst of the worst of the NFL...but we haven't been good enough to win a playoff game in 27 years. That's an astounding fact.

I will say that under Marvin we have been much more of an average to above average regular season team...but just can't win a playoff game. In the playoffs it's all about weaknesses and exploiting them. Teams have been able to easily gameplan against us and beat us there. Also we generally gave up lots of rushing yardage in most games.

In 2015, people tend to forget that Leveon Bell was out of that game. But, they remember Dalton was out. What they don't remember is that Fitzgerald Toussant, Jordan Todman, and company rushed for 167 yards against us. Those were journeyman backs. We couldn't stop them. Not even the great Mike Zimmer. Strengths of this team meltdown in the playoffs.