The guy brought in to 'modernize' our offense is a terrible playcaller

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(12-09-2019, 01:34 AM)Pat5775 Wrote: He just lost to the Browns once. If loses to them again to close out the season, he will be fired.

Mike typically has a long leash, but getting swept by Cleveland is the limit for him.

That's exactly right.  Mike Brown should have shitcanned Marvin Lewis in 2007 or 2008 but Marvin didn't drop two games to the Skid Marks until 2018.  Even then, Mikey Boy let Marvin finish out the season. 

Mike Brown's stubborn streak is legendary.  If Sigmund Freud ever psychoanalyzed Mike he would have given up on psychology and taken up hard drinking instead.  However, with this stubborn streak comes fierce loyalty which in Mike's case is mostly detrimental. 

One date in history sticks in Mike's brain forever: January 9, 1963.  That's the day Art Modell, the Cleveland owner, fired Paul Brown who was the most successful coach in football at the time.  To put this in perspective, imagine the uproar if Robert Kraft, after another steamy rub-and-tug in a Florida massage therapy clinic, fired Bill Belichick. 

Mikey Boy hated Cleveland from that day forward; it's his most redeeming quality.  Mike looked up to his father -- we all did -- and Art Modell became The Enemy with the Browns themselves as his militia.  Do you know what Paul Brown said was his greatest victory?  Was it one of the great AAFC or NFL championships when he coached the Browns? 

No. 

It was the first time the Bengals beat the Browns in 1970. 

Paul Brown basically formed the Bengals to beat his old team.  As a Sicilian I totally get it; maybe Paul Brown had some mafioso blood.