Did adding a me-first player like Terrell Owens pollute the locker room? Has coach Marvin Lewis, a seemingly honorable man, just grown tired of fighting Mike Brown and his tightwad ways and given up?
A team doesn’t lose 10 games in a row if it’s really committed. And commitment left the building sometime around October.
I’m not sure what the solution is. Well, apart from finding an owner willing to hire a football man as general manager and trust his coach about needs, such as an indoor practice facility.
At this point, it’s time to merely focus on not blowing that prime slot in the draft. In the Battle of Ohio on Sunday, I’d encourage all Bengal fans to root for a loss to the Browns, painful though that may be.
I’m one who believes Carson Palmer still has something left in the tank, but you only get a crack at a franchise quarterback like Andrew Luck or Cam Newton once in a decade.
Then again, it’s the Bengals. They could be in position to draft a difference-making QB for several years to come.
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