Mike Brown’s “Bell Cow Quarterback”

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(10-13-2019, 07:20 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: “If you have the bell cow quarterback, it works. You have to have the key guy. If you don't have the key guy, it doesn't matter.”

- Mike Brown, 2000

"If you don't have a productive quarterback, you won't go anywhere. I know it doesn't seem that simple, but it is. He's the hub of the wheel like a queen on a chessboard. These other guys are like rooks or bishops or other pieces that are not quite as valuable. Some are more valuable than others. That's just a fact."

- Mike Brown, 1999

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Well there you go!  All of you jonesing for a new quarterback in 2020 are about to get your wish because you’re in line with Mike Brown’s core beliefs.  Yeah, he spouted that twaddle 20 years ago but you know he still believes it because he never changes anything.  

The Bengals will take Tua Tagovailoa or Joe Burrow and Mikey Boy will think everything is coming up roses — but they aren’t.

This kind of narrow thinking created the 1999s with “bell cow quarterbacks” who never amounted to anything:  Jeff Blake, Akili Smith, David Klingler and even Jon Kitna.  Tua or Joe will get flattened, just like Andy Dalton and like Carson Palmer before him.

This carousel of “quarterback only” crap has to stop before Cincinnati starts to look like Cleveland.

Mike didn’t learn anything from his football genius father.  Paul Brown knew a great team builds from the trenches outward.  He proved it in Cleveland sixty years ago and this is the reason Cincinnati hasn’t won a playoff game since his death in 1991.

Sixty, fifty, forty, thirty...that's how long ago "building from the trenches" was a viable way to build a team. It's not the way it's done now and it seems no matter how many examples i give, a few people keep saying this and it just doesn't work in the free agency era. 

Mike Brown's "bell cow QB" (what a stupid term, amirite?) hasn't worked, because he and the people he hires are inept at finding a QB that has traits to help a team contend for a SB. His attempts in the '90 were just bad QBs. Carson had the body and arm talent but not the ability to make throws in the clutch, just like Dalton has the ability to put up some numbers in the regular season but can't do it in crunch time either. 

Turn on the Jets v Cowboys and see how a good, young QB makes a difference on an 0-4 Jets team, and then...someone, anyone, please try to come back and tell me how no one can win on this team. It's short-sighted, ignorant (you know, the literal definition, not the insult), lazy BS.