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Originally Posted by Caveat Emperor
See, I look at it differently -- a lot of teams kicked the tires on Marvin Lewis and ended up saying "no thanks."
Makes me wonder what everyone else saw that Mike didn't.
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I don't disagree with any of that, but to compare the pre-Marvin Bengals with their record since he took over is pretty staggering. That's not to say a .500 record with zero playoff wins in two appearances over seven seasons is anything special to the other 31 teams, but compared to what I saw from 1992 - 2002, it's night and day. Unfortunately, I think we need to come to the reality that the Bengals under Marvin is about the team's ceiling, regardless of the coach, as long as the front office/decision makers remain the status quo. That's my opinion, anyway - not to say I'm at all happy about it.