Lewis: It's going to be a way different offense

by Kirkendall on Jan 7, 2009 11:14 AM EST in Analysis Comment 4 comments

Head coach Marvin Lewis says of the offense for next season: "It's going to be a way different offense." What does that even mean? Is it the schemes? The personnel? Expected successes after closing the season with a strong running game? We still don't expect anything will change in terms of the team's offensive coordinator; position coaches, maybe. So that isn't it; though we're hardly confirmation on such matters.

Test. When did Marvin Lewis say this?

Oh, we haven't handled anything very good. We're not good enough. We haven't coached anything very good. We've turned the football over too many times. We've allowed explosive plays early on defense. We haven't played good enough on third down on either side of the football. We've had receivers drop passes. We haven't run the football effectively enough. We haven't handled anything very well.

It was after the 2007 season.

Along with having his jaw all jacked up, Keith Rivers had "arthroscopic surgery to clean out an ankle" and should be ready by late March for "offseason conditioning".

Every year, Cadillac gives away a free car to the Super Bowl MVP; like Dexter Jackson in 2003, nearly everyone picked the Escalade.

The Bengals Pro Shop is giving away free #85 jerseys with a $50 purchase. The Team's Pro Shop says it's giving away both "C.Johnson" and "Ocho Cinco" variations of the "85" jersey. We've always thought that the Chad Ocho Cinco name change was a one-year gimmick. Something for a little cash, from sales to publicity. That everything would return to normalcy after the season. The "C.Johnson" might just be over stocked (because of so many "Ocho Cinco" shirts); most popular player on the team, having a terrible off-season and regular season and no one wants to buy because no one is sure where he'll be in 2009.

Isn't there ever a point in time that one should leave a story alone? I don't care if Matt Millen is on television. It doesn't affect me, one way or another. I'm not even thinking to myself, "boy, his teams didn't do so well while he was a general manager." Sometimes people whom have been controversial in their own right, should sometimes just let things go. That's not to say I don't appreciate what PFT does; they bring up interesting stories that are otherwise buried. Sometimes they stir rumors, but you have to look past that. Differentiate the two; which is easy because they usually point those out early. On this one, no. I'm not on board.

Boston College head coach Jeff Jagodzinski is likely getting fired for interviewing with the New York Jets. It's being reported that Athletic Director Gene DeFilippo was informed of Jagodzinski's interview by a reporter; not the head coach himself.

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That reporter ought to be fired

…or at the very least, suspended for a long period of time.

My Louisville Cardinals had to endure a pointless [posterior orofice] exam several years ago because of the NCAA being tipped off to the possible infraction by the blue-bleeding Mildcat apologist who used to lurk the halls at the Louisville Courier-Journal.

So when Denny Crum finally got past all the investigations, both internal and external, and went to the NCAA and asked, “How did all this get started, anyway?”…the response from the NCAA was, “Oh, Pat Forde told us.”

After his two-month suspension from the CJ, which was never actually explained by the paper itself (because that would require the feckless editors of that particular fish-wrapper to actually take responsibility for their own reporting), Forde was rewarded with a now long-standing gig at ESPN, where he now continues his career of impersonating Rick Reilly…oddly enough, now, right next to Rick Reilly himself.

But at least I’m not bitter…and that’s the important thing.

by TheWalrus1971 on Jan 7, 2009 12:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Hmm, Matt Millen, out of work GM. Bengals, out of GM organization. Hand in glowe baby.

by IgnatiusJReilly on Jan 7, 2009 4:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Lewis is a douche

Lewis is so full of crap. He is clueless now and the bengals are terrible. The city of cincinnati is full of kool-aid drinking tools. The city deserves to be constantly bent over by mike brown. I bet you can’t even hear anyone fart in cincinnati anymore their buttholes are so loose from Mike Brown. He is cashing in on your stupidity. Lewis always talks, talks, talks but never actually fixes anything. STOP buying tickets and stop going to the games.

by Diesel2405 on Jan 7, 2009 9:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs