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Coach Lewis, your answer to the media’s questions week after week is, we didn't make football plays. We didn't win the third down battle on both sides of the ball. You know what, WE KNOW! We watch it week after week. Why don't you answer the question, how are you going to fix it? Why can't your defensive players make tackles? Why can't your DB's cover anybody? What the heck is wrong with your DC? We have this powerful offense and yet they keep going three and out. You’re getting Henry back this week, is he going to turn this team around? No, don’t count on it.

Coach Lewis, why do we keep going away from the things that are working? The screen pass was working. Short yardage passing is working pretty good.

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Where did Kenny Watson go in the running game?

Why does the team teach Palmer to kneel down on apparent offsides rather than trying to take advantage of a free play?

The secondary has not been hit with the injuries the LBers have, so why can't they cover anyone?

Do you have an explanation for why this defense has made EVERY qb it has played this year look a future Hall of Famer (with the exception of McNair, an actual potential Hall of Famer)? Do you really expect us to believe that was all due to Ahmad Brooks? If so, say so. Because, otherwise, the continued inability to bring consistent pressure is approaching sick joke levels.

Why can't scheme be tweaked to help bring pressure?

The loyalty you have shown to your defensive coaches has blown up in your face. How much longer before you clean house?

Why do you think you still deserve to keep your job?

When was the last time this defense stopped anyone in a two minute drill situation? What could be done to mix things up in that set?

Are you aware the teams the Bengals play employ punters?

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Year in and year out, this team eschews taking a tight end in the draft who can work the middle of the field and give Palmer an option when teams take away the wide receivers. Why is that? Don't some of the third down difficulties trace back to not having reliable safety valve options?

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Do you have a plan for stamping out the mental mistakes? Both on your team and on your coaching staff? And with regard to your own performance?

What do you say to those who honestly believe that you have lost this team and they are no longer listening to you?

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Since the Bengals FO is notoriously cheap on scouting, and instead relies heavily on the team's assistant coaches -- many if not all of whom are likely to be fired in January -- what is being done now to upgrade the team's non-coaching-staff-based scouting and talent evaluation capabilities so as to not waste 11 draft picks in 2008 like you did in 2004?

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The team's unbroken run of failure on defense stretches the entirety of your tenure as coach. Injuries acknowledged, what can you articulate to the fans that will give them any hope that you have the ability to do something you have so far failed to do: namely, field a defense that is even league average?

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The team's unbroken run of failure on defense stretches the entirety of your tenure as coach. Injuries acknowledged, what can you articulate to the fans that will give them any hope that you have the ability to do something you have so far failed to do: namely, field a defense that is even league average?

Mike Brown can answer that for you, as soon as he gets done cutting out his coupon for Frisch's salad bar before lunch today.

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I'm not interested in the Mike B boogeyman, shulasteak, but more interested in what Marvin Lewis is going to do to fix things, if he is indeed going to helm this ship of fools into the foreseeable future...

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The team's unbroken run of failure on defense stretches the entirety of your tenure as coach. Injuries acknowledged, what can you articulate to the fans that will give them any hope that you have the ability to do something you have so far failed to do: namely, field a defense that is even league average?

Mike Brown can answer that for you, as soon as he gets done cutting out his coupon for Frisch's salad bar before lunch today.

Coupons, I thought Brown takes the whole family and they all use one plate, while everyone orders water.

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In everyone's rush to kick their favorite scapegoat, you let Marvin Lewis off the hook. As near as I can tell, the Bengals spent everything they had under the cap, pursued the free agents that ML wanted, and fielded the team that ML requested. Why is the focus of the irritation Mike Brown? This is a team that was 11-5 two years ago, 8-8 and should have made the playoffs last year (if they hadn't choked), and now they are 2-6. What in that is Brown's fault? I am looking directly at the person I blame for this, and it ain't Mike Brown. Marvin Lewis has failed this year to date, and failed miserably.

I will look at Brown when Lewis sticks around, but until then? The focus should be on the f**kawful coaching job being done by Cincy's head coach and his crew. Simply awful.

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That cuts against the "Mike Brown is cheap" thesis that so many on here like to trumpet. You are saying they have not spent it wisely.

I would agree.

For my part, though, I am blaming ML more for that than Mikey B and the clan.

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That cuts against the "Mike Brown is cheap" thesis that so many on here like to trumpet. You are saying they have not spent it wisely.

I would agree.

For my part, though, I am blaming ML more for that than Mikey B and the clan.

Yes, Mike is cheap - he does not provide his players/coaches with the same amenities as other teams have at their disposal, and yes the dreaded Bubble is a perfect example.

His scouting department is the smallest in the league, and he has no outside-the-family football people with any sort of proven track record. This is a matter of getting off your a$$ and wooing or paying for some personnel and scouting people who can help you.

There isn't one team in this league that would touch Katie, Mike and Troy or Paul Jr., unless they wanted an accountant. None of them have any value because they are terrible at putting a consistently good product on the field on Sundays. They are absolutely miserable, with one of the worst track records in the entire history of professional sports. I am not saying they're bad people, just bad at running the non-business side of a football team.

I don't think there is any grey area there, or room for debate, and the examples I mentioned are all factual.

Finally, Marvin Lewis doesn't decide, I'm betting, who gets re-signed and who doesn't, because the Brown family's model is non-changing and not adaptable. You pay OT's, WR's, QB's, RB's, and more recently, DE's. That's it. And they don't sign expensive or impact Free Agents - ever.

So he is forced to take high risk, high ceiling gambles on defensive players in the draft who fall, because the Bengals' do not do enough personnel wise, to acquire additional draft picks often enough, nor sign proven talent through FA that can have an impact. Instead they fill out their roster with FA and acquire borderline or aged players who are stop gaps.

Beyond that Lewis has a terrible coaching staff, probably the worst in the league outside of Zampese and Bratkowski and Jim Anderson.

Those are the only 3 worth keeping. If Marvin's going to be successful, he needs to spend his time game planning and preparing his players for games. Taking someone who's never been a HC before and asking him to be media relations director, personnel GM, head coach, and advisor etc..., is a bit much. I am not even sure Lewis is a good enough HC at this point regardless. His teams are an embarrassment on Sundays, they play dumb and have no discipline or focus or motivation.

But this seems to be an engrained, constant with this franchise, because they refuse to come out of the dark ages. Marvin Lewis is watching his coaching career go down the drain, like every head coach here before him since Forrest Gregg. I don't know why anyone would take that job here, it's career suicide.

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Yes, Mike is cheap - he does not provide his players/coaches with the same amenities as other teams have at their disposal, and yes the dreaded Bubble is a perfect example.

Q - Total number of days an indoor practice bubble has been needed this season?

A - Zero

Q - Total number of days an indoor practice bubble was needed last season?

A - Zero

A perfect example? :lmao:

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