Losing Gamblers who lose big

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(12-10-2020, 12:49 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Even in Mike Brown's world I can't imagine how he can sell bringing this cluster _____ back ? Even if Taylor stumbles into another win it will just be nuts to sign up for another year of this.

People may recall a decade ago when the Bengals went 4-12 with Palmer, Chad, and TO. They were set to pick 4th in the 2011 draft as a result.
Fans demanded that Marvin Lewis and the entire staff be replaced.
Mike Brown chose to keep all of Marvin Lewis, Bob Bratkowski, and Mike Zimmer despite fan pushback.
Palmer chose to retire instead of playing for those organization another year.

As we know, AJ Green and Andy Dalton were drafted, Chad traded.
Fans and experts alike predicted the Bengals wouldn't win a single game.

The Bengals went on to make the playoffs 5 years in a row, as we know.

I'm not saying this justifies Mike Brown being stubborn and sticking with the coaches despite opposition, but the team could have ended up (way) worse if he went with a new staff. Mike Brown may take that same approach with Taylor because he saw it pay off with Marvin Lewis (to an extent).