Bengals owner Mike Brown explained why he elected to sign HC Marvin Lewis to a two-year contract in a recent interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“I chose not to make a decision on what we were going to do going forward until all the evidence had been submitted. And that meant playing through the full season and not making a call prematurely,” Brown said. “I would say that while we had serious reverses and they were unsettling, to put it mildly, we bounced back at the end of the year.