In 1992, IF the Bengals hired 2004 Marvin Lewis instead of Dave Shula...

[THE PISTONS]

(06-11-2019, 12:13 PM)Pat5775 Wrote: Hard to say. The 90’s teams were an absolute train wreck, and MB was at his peak of stinginess and incompetence. The team very well may have been “better”, but I doubt they would have been “good”.

Also, Marvin proved he wasn’t anything special himself. Sure he saved this team from the 90’s, but he inherited a very un-90’s roster. We had a pretty solid Oline, ball-hawking DB’s, an elite RB, rising star WR’s... the fairly quick turnaround didn’t surprise me (plus, my 14 year-old self thought Marvin was the next Bill Walsh at the time). Still, you gotta give Marvin credit for giving the fanbase hope before 2008.

Our drafting and personnel decisions seemed to improve once he was here too.

But, like you said...he did inherit Justin Smith, Chad Johnson, TJ, Rudi Johnson, and the #1 overall pick which became Palmer.