Don't Underestimate Yourself, You're A Tremendous Slouch

For 20 years Mike Brown has been working and tinkering and learning and evolving as an owner and GM. You don't get to where he is now without developing an unparalleled knack for what his job requires. Back in the early 90's it was easy for his teams to be garbage. They had no talent or coaching. Jeff Query, for all his hilljackian awesomeness, was a big part of the offense. JEFF QUERY DAMNIT!  See, Mike Brown was like a blind man wandering down a mountain. As long as he let gravity do its thing, i.e. let Dave Shula coach a bunch of bad players, he'd get to the bottom. But now his team has so much more talent due mostly to Marvin Lewis threatening to drink himself to death in the war room if Mikey Boy took one more goddamn flyer on a guy that he saw a five minute high school highlight video of instead of the productive stud player. So when you think about it, this is Mike Brown's career masterpiece. For him to be able to impose his shambling, half-comatose-on-barbecue-sauce will on such a potentially talented team and transform them into the definition of bad football is a remarkable achievement for everything Mike Brown represents. Instead of being blind and falling down a mountain, now he is a circus owner letting the tiger escape from its cage and start killing spectators while simultaneously setting fire to the tent and starting an elephant stampede. This team is far exceeding Mike Brown's craziest ambitions for building things only with the cheapest shit.

Comments

[JM]

Told you he was ready to pop. Thank You T.O.

He won't stop now. Only more truth to come.

[Mike-Brown-Ruined-The-NFL-For-Me]

I don't think this team is that talented, although they clearly have more talent than the 1990s, but that's like being better at Mexican food than Taco Bell.

But Marvin's had some hellacious drafts:
2003 Only Carson remains but Steinbach was a good solid pick.
2004 Everyone in that draft stunk except for the one good year you got each out of Chris Perry and Robert Geathers and Stacy Andrews -- maybe throw in Geathers' other years of mediocrity. But overall a craptastic draft.
2005 Nobody is left except Fanene. That speaks volumes.
2006 A good draft by Marvin's standards, but Frostee Rucker as a 3rd rounder? Bust.
2007 Got one good player Leon Hall, missed out on trading up for Mr All-World Revis Island, and throw in a safety who gets his butt beat regularly
2008 Actually a pretty miserable draft if you consider Keith Rivers is really nothing special, Pat Sims is a body, Collins is a body, and Jerome Simpson one of the biggest busts in franchise history.
2009 Already looking pretty crappy with Mr McBrokenFatFoot, Mualaga is out of position all the time, and Chase Coffman barely made the squad.

I would say reports of Marvin assembling loads of talent are greatly exaggerated in these parts.

[Neutered Bengal]

you guys see this....In particular listen to how demoralized Chad Johnson is. He sounds like one of us.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=Au5LAH_hQwia.RQCIx5pg47sYNAF?slug=ap-bengals-to

[Bengal in Browns Territory]

Saw the article linked by Neutered Bengal, makes me wonder...has anyone tried sending either TO or Ocho a WDR shirt? No, their show doesn't get many viewers, but could you imagine the attention it would get if they were seen wearing our gear?

[CurseofBoJackson]

Brilliant, this should be done ASAP, especially in the wake of TO's accurate rant about the club and it's ails.

[Tyler from Cincy]

Whodey Revolution, can you explain to me why every other owner in sports who has a struggling franchise will send out some sort of memorandum (Jerry Jones, Dan Gilbert, Jerry Richardson-panthers owner who took responsibility for 2010 bad record, etc.) or comment to the media or something to let their team's fandom know that things are going to change and get better, YET MIKE BROWN SITS IN HIS CAVE AND SAYS NOTHING TO REASSURE OR EASE THE BENGALS FANDOM! Probably planning on how he can wait to sign/negotiate the No. 1 or No. 2 draft picks contract until the first game of the 2011 season.

[who d'eytat]

comrades!

i have not decided yet to go to the game, but i will if there are others out there like me. can project mayhem #10 be that we pass out several odd thousand paper bags (browns fans might wear them too) and distribute them to spectators as they go through the gate?

i am in if you are.