There are several stages of being a Bengals fan throughout the year.
Most of us have some level of hopeful optimism over the summer, but by this time of the year hopelessness has set it. With that in mind, we all know that Marvin Lewis is likely the man in charge of whether Marvin Lewis is the head coach next year or not (because that makes sense, right?).
Let’s just step away from that study in institutional dysfunction for a moment and pretend for a moment that Mike Brown was a competent owner, businessman or human and was willing and able to look at the direction of the franchise objectively.