I was wrong

[SunsetBengal]

(03-31-2020, 07:14 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: What I want to know is this:  What was the spark?  The catalyst?  Why now?  I wonder what snapped.  Maybe the 2-14 season and a mostly empty stadium loosened Frankenstein’s bolts, so to speak.

In my opinion, the things that you have listed may well have been "aggravating factors" that led to the degree of change that we've witnessed in this relatively short period of time.

However, I have a strong feeling that the decision to rebuild was made last year, at the same moment it was decided to move on from Marvin Lewis and go with a youthful HC going forward.  I feel like they likely wanted to revamp the roster last season, but felt constricted by the amount of "dead money" that they would have eaten, would have cut in half the amount of personnel acquisitions that they would have been able to make.