This morning, WhoDey Revolution unleashed Project Mayhem Task #9 in Georgetown, KY. Currently, a plane is being flown over Bengals training camp with the message "I CAN ONLY SEE ONE SCOUT FROM HERE!" being pulled from a banner.
Last season we asked fans to donate $18 to help us keep up the billboards we bought around town asking for the Bengals to hire a General Manager. We need your help again. Please donate $19 to allow us to fly the plane for more practices, or $1 for every year Mike Brown has been the GM/Owner. Each flight will have a different message. It costs about $1,000 for each flight. For every $1,000 we raise, a plane will fly a message over Georgetown and let the Bengals front office know that fans are fed up with 18 seasons and zero playoff wins.
The Bengals employ only one full time scout - Greg Seamon, along with a few "Scouting Consultants" that work a few days a year. Check out the entire 7 person Bengals scouting department here and more details on their roles and responsibilities here. Here at WDR we have been calling for the team to reshuffle and strengthen their front office and scouting department from the beginning - it is point #2 from our detailed manifesto, which you can read on the left side of the page.
Now compare that to the Colts front office, who employ eight full time scouts and a player personnel office of 18.
The Bengals bare bones scouting office does not just hinder their ability to accurately assess talent for the draft and in free agency - scouts also help the coaching staff prepare game plans for future opponents by attending games of future opponents. This means that not only are the Bengals hindered in their ability to assess talent for player personnel, they are not as prepared during the season.
The results over the last eighteen, going into nineteen seasons speak for themselves. The Bengals have amassed a cumulative record of 101-187-1 under Mike Brown as Owner/GM - the worst winning percentage (.349) among every team in all 4 major sports for that span and have zero playoff wins to show for it.
Until they make some major changes to the way they approach the game, this losing will continue. The Bengals were the only team who had a top 10 draft pick last year to make zero changes to their front office or coaching staff. Yes, Carson is healthy. Yes, "experts" think we had a good draft. But until the team faces facts and realizes that 18 years of failure does not add up to a winning 19th season the losing will continue.
We will post pictures of the event at Georgetown as they become available.
Viva la revolucion!
Hahahaha!
Posted by: Who Dey Boston | August 01, 2009 at 01:15 PM
Where is a link for us to donate, Comrade Brosef?
Posted by: tbar | August 01, 2009 at 02:10 PM
Donate via the link on the left at the top....
Posted by: Brosef Stalin | August 01, 2009 at 05:51 PM
I just donated. I was worried you guys were going to screw this up like the Draft, but you really came through, and I'll make another donation in the very near future.
The only thing I will say negative about this post is that you guys keep harping on 18 years of failure, in spite of the 2005 season. If that season was a failure in spite of a playoff berth because the Bengals failed to win the Super Bowl, then why not just count every year since the franchise came into existence? After all, we as fans can brag about the same number of Lombardi trophies no matter which Brown was in control of the team. I hate to be the one clamoring to give the devil his due, but you can't hold Paul Brown up as the be-all, end-all for this organization without at least admitting that the 2005 season was a success. Granted, it may have only been a success because of pure dumb luck, but it was a success, nonetheless.
Posted by: Wyatt | August 01, 2009 at 08:19 PM
I would take exception to ANYONE saying that the Bengals had a good draft. Look at what they needed -- that, as always, isn't addressed. Look what they got -- marginal players in the draft. Look at what they gave up -- a chance to bag a few players and maneuver around by trading up/down.
All of that that they missed yet some 'experts' assert that the Bengals had a good draft? Maybe a good 'daft'! In the course of my life I have found one immutable fact -- experts are nothing more than 'former - "perts"'.
Posted by: WCH | August 04, 2009 at 12:05 AM
This is absolutely hilarious, keep it up guys.
Don't listen to the blind yearly optimists over at go-bengals.com or whatever douchebag fan site that is. That will last until Palmer's first broken appendage happens in the preseason.
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