Perhaps the perfect tank job?

[BengalChris]

(03-04-2020, 11:20 AM)shanebo Wrote: Was thinking about this last night ... what if Mike Brown looked ahead, saw there would be a potential franchise QB at the top of the draft, and decided to purposely tank last season?  (OK, so he thought it would be Tua, but all the best plans have a little luck, no?)

Think about it.  Marvin would never go for it, so he's fired.  Hire a rook with no coaching experience whatsoever.  His job is to look incompetent and overwhelmed.  Check.  Spend draft picks on injured or developmental players who are at least a year away from helping out.  Check.  Then we need some injuries in key spots.  First rounder/LT goes down, out for season.  Star WR goes down, out for season.
Backup LT has mysterious concussion, out for season.  Talented backup WR looks awesome first game?  Shut him down.  Then we need some strategic substitutions.  Sit vets here and there, start rookies in their places.  Cut some vets, don't bother to replace them.  Other vets look mysteriously off.  Gritty veteran QB won't play ball?  Sit him.  Let's see how the noodle-armed backup does against two division rivals.  Limit the star RB's touches.  What?  It's getting a little too much?  People are saying we're historically bad?  OK, let's start implementing the real system, win a few games ...

Now it's 2020.  We get our franchise QB.  Suddenly everybody's healthy again.  Zac can actually coach and evaluate talent.  We have a great draft.  Pick up some FAs.  System looks solid.  We win some games.  Make playoffs, win playoff game, and then ....?

OK, probably not.  In the words of the great Chris Farley, "But you could imagine what it'd be like ... good, great, grand, wonderful, NO YELLING ON THE BUS!"

Mike Brown went into last season expecting to come out with a winning record. New Dey and all. He thought he got a future great HC.

But it all failed. Taylor failed, badly. He coached badly, game planned badly, play called badly and evaluated talent badly. I guess he gives good speeches to the team, but that doesn't win games. Maybe he gave Mike Brown a good speech at his interview.

Two freakin' wins is an embarrassment.

Last season just confirmed for me that Mike Brown hasn't really changed and Model Model is still his self written bible.

Waiting for him and boy Taylor to prove me wrong. Still waiting ... I expect to be waiting awhile even though I'd love nothing more than to be wrong and for this front office to get it's shitt together after 29 years.