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Cincinnati Bengals (Just Burrow In)

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RB07OSU said:
I watched today because, you know, fuck the Steelers. Good to see nothing has changed in the ways that they find to lose. After being mathematically eliminated, not sure why they would wait past tomorrow to fire Lewis. Again, get rid of Lewis and Pacman and I'll be interested again.
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It took them 5 weeks past the point where Nugent clearly didn't have it anymore before he was cut. I can't imagine Status Quo Brown would pay Lewis to not be his coach. I truly do not see Lewis being let go at the end of the season either. Yes, they suck and he needs to go. But the business is still making money and Mikey doesn't care enough about anything beyond making money.
 
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Honor&Glory said:
It took them 5 weeks past the point where Nugent clearly didn't have it anymore before he was cut. I can't imagine Status Quo Brown would pay Lewis to not be his coach. I truly do not see Lewis being let go at the end of the season either. Yes, they suck and he needs to go. But the business is still making money and Mikey doesn't care enough about anything beyond making money.
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That is my legitimate concern...after not firing him for the playoff fiasco last year, I don't know what it would take. Really hope they lose out from here and fire Lewis, but not sure that will happen.
 
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7 hours ago: "Marvin Lewis will retire after the 2016 season."

1 hour ago: "Marvin Lewis intends to return for the 2017 season."

He's determined to keep pursuing that first playoff win. Will the Bengals brass let him?
 
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Jake said:
7 hours ago: "Marvin Lewis will retire after the 2016 season."

1 hour ago: "Marvin Lewis intends to return for the 2017 season."

He's determined to keep pursuing that first playoff win. Will the Bengals brass let him?
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They've given him every opportunity to do so. I have no doubt they'll allow him to sweet talk his way to keeping his job.

I personally wasn't for firing him after last season. He got a pass considering McCarron was his QB in that game. With the way Pittsburgh played that game, I think Dalton could have potentially pulled it off. But the year he was given the extension after a 3 or 4 win season and this season are the two seasons in which he definitely should not have kept his job.
 
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TooTallMenardo said:
They've given him every opportunity to do so. I have no doubt they'll allow him to sweet talk his way to keeping his job.

I personally wasn't for firing him after last season. He got a pass considering McCarron was his QB in that game. With the way Pittsburgh played that game, I think Dalton could have potentially pulled it off. But the year he was given the extension after a 3 or 4 win season and this season are the two seasons in which he definitely should not have kept his job.
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I agree with you about last season. He didn't make Jeremy Hill fumble that ball when the only thing that mattered was possession, not yards, and then the defensive meltdown.

But 14 years and 0-7 in the playoffs...that's a lot of patience.
 
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Jake said:
I agree with you about last season. He didn't make Jeremy Hill fumble that ball when the only thing mattered was possession, not yards. But 14 years and 0-7 in the playoffs...that's a lot of patience.
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I know. My patience has worn too thin. The promotion of Ken Zampese to OC and the subsequent season that followed is the icing on the cake for me. He did amazing things as Dalton's QB coach. I just don't think he has the mind to call plays. Every game this season, you could point to multiple moments where the offense was playing too conservative. It wasn't quite as bad as Bratkowski's last few years with us, but still pretty bad.

On a side note, if the NFL kept track of how many times a team threw a check down pass to a RB, I think the Bengals would have the record by at least 50 plays.
 
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TooTallMenardo said:
I know. My patience has worn too thin. The promotion of Ken Zampese to OC and the subsequent season that followed is the icing on the cake for me. He did amazing things as Dalton's QB coach. I just don't think he has the mind to call plays. Every game this season, you could point to multiple moments where the offense was playing too conservative. It wasn't quite as bad as Bratkowski's last few years with us, but still pretty bad.

On a side note, if the NFL kept track of how many times a team threw a check down pass to a RB, I think the Bengals would have the record by at least 50 plays.
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Losing Eifert and Green for several games didn't help, though. I don't watch the Bengals enough to have an opinion on play selection, but I know having those two guys would make it a lot easier. But as for Lewis, he's had several chances and hasn't gotten anything done.
 
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Jake said:
Losing Eifert and Green for several games didn't help, though. I don't watch the Bengals enough to have an opinion on play selection, but I know having those two guys would make it a lot easier. But as for Lewis, he's had several chances and hasn't gotten anything done.
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Not having Eifert and Green on the field together was the biggest thing holding the Bengals back. But outside of a deep ball against Baltimore (I think that's who it was at the beginning of the year), they rarely tested team deep. AJ Green is a machine catching deep passes.

The game against Denver stands out the most. I want to say we were down 11 with like 4:30 to play and 3 timeouts. We had no less than 6 check down passes on the same drive. A drive that took nearly 3 1/2 minutes to move the ball 65 yards. Predictably, the drive stalled because the only play in the god damn playbook was a check down to Bernard. The added workload probably has a lot to do with why Gio is currently out of commission, too.

Hue Jackson did a great job of complementing both running back's playing styles, and rotated them in and out accordingly. With Zampese, it seemed whichever back was more productive, got 85% of the touches. We don't have a RB capable of getting 85% of the run plays in a game.
 
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