With Mike Brown continuing to save souls instead of building a winning football team, Marvin Lewis seems to have finally drawn a line in the sand. The smoke and mirrors power sharing agreement with Marvin and Mike is history.
Here is what Marvin said after the Henry signing:
"Mike makes decisions with my input and so forth all the time," he said Tuesday. "But every decision made in this building is ultimately his decision."
And as Comrade Rembert discussed, when asked about the recent rumors that Rudi Johnson was being shopped around for a WR, Lewis replied that he was 'totally unaware."
Marvin seems to be telling the world: this is Mike Brown's team. Finally.
As WDR discussed when the Henry signing was rumored, the decision might finally blow the cover off this sham of a team. Fans and journalists, both local and national, might finally see this team for what it is - a joke. After 17 years of mismanagement which have led to zero playoff wins, Owner/GM Mike Browns is still more concerned with re-deeming lost souls than with putting a winning football team on the field.
Remember, Marvin Lewis was passed over by Tampa, Buffalo, Carolina and 3 other teams for their head coaching. He even considered taking the head coaching job at Michigan State! Mike Brown knew he had the upper hand in the negotiations. Which is why a coach with such great credentials leading the defenses in Baltimore and Washington would agree to share player personnel decisions with a man so incompetent.
Not anymore. Marvin does not look like he is enjoying himself - having to deal with Mike Brown's incompetence and being at the helm of a ship slowly taking on water already.
With experience working on campaigns, this positioning my Marvin is par for the course when the writing is on the wall and failure looms ahead - the positioning begins for who to blame. Marvin is positioning himself to not be seen as the reason for the continual Bengals failure.
The bottom line is this - Marvin Lewis has had enough. And after being pushed by Katie Blackburn to hire outside the organization with Marvin, Bengals fans had better be ready to welcome our 2009 head coach, longtime Bengals Running Backs Coach Jim Anderson.
UPDATE: The Cut Man sees it too.
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