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Lewis: "I get all the blame now"


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If you have not tripped onto it yet, C. Trent's new venture is solid, and a good source for Bengals news in addition to Reedy. The latest article:

http://cnati.com/cincinnati-bengals/lewis-i-get-all-the-blame-now-00288/

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Q: How did the way you feel about your team compared with any other team since you've been here?:

Marvin Lewis: It's hard for me to make a comparisons. I don't really remember what happened before. But I'm excited about this team. I'm excited about the work, and their commitment to winning, which is this team has some really strong leaders. We have really subtracted any of the not-so-positive influence that we've had here. I think it's been a good step. This team has each and every guy pulling in the right direction. I think that's a good thing. There are guys who earned their way to stay here, and guys who haven't produced are no longer here. That's a healthy thing for everybody to see. It doesn't matter where you were drafted, when you were drafted. We're kind of down to that now. You have to get

out there and, other than one player we kept on the 53 roster, everybody participated the majority of the time in training camp. That's a good thing.

Q: Is this maybe the first time that this is a Marvin Lewis team. This is the way you want the defense, talent, maturity, the whole thing.

ML: Yeah, I would say I get all the blame now.

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I've always been a fan of Marvin's and have taken my fair share of crap over it, but I really like this comment from him...

I like Marvin, too, but there are two things he desperately needs to learn: clock management and half-time adjustments.

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I've always been a fan of Marvin's and have taken my fair share of crap over it, but I really like this comment from him...

I like Marvin, too, but there are two things he desperately needs to learn: clock management and half-time adjustments.

Second that here. He is still lacking some very basic clock management skills and half-time adjustments do always seem to be lacking also.

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I would certainly appear that way, but I honestly don't have enough working knowledge of how they run things on the field to determine the specifics. He's overall responsible, so I get that. Anyway, after he made the comment about this team being more of "his type" of team, the follow on comment about "I get all the blame now" is nice to hear from him.

He's putting himself out there and it should serve as a motivating force for the team in knowing he made those comments.

If they fail, his days are certainly numbered. You just can't justify losing with "your" team...

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COB: Dunno, did you read the whole interview at the link? However you think ML feels about Jeremi, this was strong:

ML: This team has better leadership than the team in 2005 did. The young players have better

role models around them - every meeting room, every position room - to help the coaches coach. They'll be able to self-discipline and self-corrected themselves and critique themselves better. They know what to except from me. That's a good thing. Guys like Dhani and Crocker, who we brought in from the outside, have been very positive guys. You have Whitworth and Bobbie up front on offense, you've got Carson and J.T. on offense. J.T. comes in with a lot of confidence. He's been a starting quarterback in the NFL, so he comes in here with a lot of confidence. Cedric Benson has lot of confidence. We have a new guy in Jeremi Johnson, who's been recreated and reconstituted. He comes here with an appreciation for playing in the NFL. Other than tight end, where the influence of Reggie will still be around, every other position group on our football team has great leadership. On the defensive line, you have Domata, you've got Robert. So now Michael Johnson has some good mentors. Maualuga has good mentors. In the secondary, those young corners have good mentors.

Further, this part was a direct shot at Rudi Johnson:

It's just not fair to the rest of the football team that we can go out there and execute on Sunday if we can't participate in practice. But then we still had one player who had a hard time practicing on Wednesday's and that's tough to do. To me it's tough to win inthat way. I feel great about where we are with the guys. The season is coming up on us, we're six days away.
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I've always been a fan of Marvin's and have taken my fair share of crap over it, but I really like this comment from him...

I like Marvin, too, but there are two things he desperately needs to learn: clock management and half-time adjustments.

Bingo!!!! I have been saying this for awhile. After seeing hard knocks i will admit that Marvin has the love and passion for the game he showed that in the way he talked to the guys, so i really liked seeing that, I just hope all the players this year buy into it. I really think thats why have been losing since 2005, because Marvin lost the players here, and he wanted to start over so we have so many new players in here, who i hope buy into his system.

I have a good feeling about this year, right now better then it has in the past so i hope it means something!!!

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