02-26-2020, 06:10 PM
(02-26-2020, 12:59 PM)sandwedge Wrote: I'll be honest here, I'm probably one of the few fans that has never put PB on a pedestal. Sure we played in 2 SBs and came within seconds of winning, but there were alot of losing seasons under PB. We were often the joke in the AFC Central. Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Houston beat us regularly. PB was also the guy that hired head coaches Bill Johnson and Homer Rice, traded away Bill Bergey. He had his share blinders.
You obviously are not aware of how hard it was to build an expansion team before free agency. The Bengals had a losing record their first two seasons. After that they only had one losing season with PB as HC and made the playoffs 3 of 6 years (when only 8 teams qualified).
He had a winning record during his 15 years as GM (after he retired as head coach) with only 6 losing seasons, 4 more playoff seasons, and 2 Super Bowls.
Not a dominating record, but there is no way you can say we were "often the joke of the AFC Central". In fact Paul Brown had a winning record against every single team in the AFC Central as HC/GM ('68-'90).
21-20-0 v Pitt
22-19-0 v Hou
24-19-1 v Cle
