11-02-2019, 10:02 AM
(11-02-2019, 08:34 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Hanging on the coat tails of other winning teams.
We've had this discussion several times on here and several more on the mother ship. MB "wants" to win, I believe that. But like Nately puts it, he wants to win like a fat girl sitting with a gallon of ice cream and bag of Reeses cups "wants" to be a bikini model.
In other words he doesn't covet winning above all else. He doesn't put winning up on the mantle as the ultimate and only acceptable outcome. If he truly did he would have changed his ways long ago.
I think a lot of time owners lookm long term and that may be part of why the Bengals fail to win championships.
If a coach (or many fan) had his way he would trade every future draft pick in order to win a championship. Coaches for sure because they figure if they doin't win they are gone in a few years anyway. But owners in general look long term. Mike Brown has shown he won't mortagge the future for a championship, and just like most people that won't get a mortgage will never own a house the bengals will never get over the hump.
When they hit on a few drafts they got good enough to make the playoffs, but their refusal to take the next step kept them from getting any further. We also had some good coordinators in Zimmer/Guenther and Gruden/Jackson.
Now we have missed on a few drafts and we don't seem to have any coaching. Things could be bad for a while.
