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Chick Ludwig covers the Cincinnati Bengals. He also writes about his other passions: college football, basketball and golf.Home > Blogs > Chick Ludwig At Large > Archives > 2008 > October > 27 > Entry
Are we in ‘Dead Coach Walking’ phase?
WCKY-AM’S LANCE McALISTER
SURE THINKS SO; AND HE HAS
EVERY RIGHT TO FEEL THAT WAY
‘SHOTGUN’ CALLS BENGALS
‘SOFT, SLOPPY, STUPID’
===LUDWIG AT LARGE salutes Lance McAlister for speaking his mind.===
Lance McAlister — host of the Lance McAlister Show on WCKY-AM (1530 Homer, The Sports Animal) in Cincinnati — unloaded on the Cincinnati Bengals and their head coach, Marvin Lewis, on Monday … the day after the Bengals’ embarrassing 35-6 loss at Houston.
McAlister called the Bengals a “soft, sloppy, stupid” football team.
He noted that CBS studio studs Boomer Esiason and Bill Cowher claimed the Bengals “quit.”
IN LANCE’S WORDS:
“Boomer (Esiason) said it was an absolute embarrassment. As Bill Cowher said, ‘The Bengals defense turned down hits today.’
“SOFT. SLOPPY. STUPID. And I’ve got news for Marvin Lewis. I’ve been there and I’ve done that. I was here before Marvin Lewis and I’ll be here after Marvin Lewis. And I can guarantee you this: I see it with my own eyes. You see it with your own eyes. Marvin Lewis may not realize it, and he probably won’t be fired. But we have officially transitioned into the ‘Dead Coach Walking’ phase of this situation. We saw it with (Bruce) Coslet. We saw it with (Dick) LeBeau. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re in the ‘Dead Coach Walking’ phase of Bengals football under Marvin Lewis.
“I wonder if he still likes his team at 0-8. What do you say when you step before the media today you haven’t said before? There’s no accountability … for his players … there’s no accountability for the organization. The owner (Mike Brown) never talks. And when he does talk, he talks about the string of unfortunate and bad luck the organization has been through.
“This is the organization where the buck NEVER EVER EVER STOPS! The owner doesn’t talk. The coach will come on and tell us about guys weren’t in the right gaps again and they’ve got to do their job, and Johnathan Joseph will complain that the CBS guys were picking on him! Nothing he screwed up! It’s just like Chinny (Chinedum Ndukwe) last week. It wasn’t that the Bengals didn’t respond to Keith Rivers. No-no-no. It was what Hines Ward did.”
MORE FROM LANCE’S BLOG:
Stat of the day
The Bengals are on pace to gain just 3,664 yards, the worst number since the 1968 expansion Bengals got 3,426 in a 14-game season.
Scoring differential
2008 Marvin Lewis
Record 0-8
Average score: 27.1-13.0 (margin -14.1)
2002 Dick LeBeau
Record 2-14
Average score: 28.5-17.4 (margin -11.1)
Bengals worst scoring differential for a season all-time
‘08 Bengals — 14.1 (0-8 Lewis)
‘98 Bengals — 11.5 (3-13 Coslet)
‘99 Bengals — 10.88 (4-12 Coslet)
‘91 Bengals — 10.75 (3-13 Wyche)
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By Brian
October 27, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
How about a “divest yourself from caring about this team so they can’t ruin your Sundays anymore” phase. Try it. It’s liberating.By blindeye
October 27, 2008 9:56 PM | Link to this
This is the kind of team you get when…. you didn’t want a certain wide receiver but the owner decides to bring him back anyway, you extend the contract of your veteran pro-bowl tackle who should have ended his career here and then you release him outright right before the beginning of the season and thereby tell all the others on the team that you’d rather get rid of them than pay them, you let your leading tackler from last year and you best kick off coverage guys go on waivers just to save money, your star receiver wants out and you ignore his pleas and make him stay with the team and then you have him do ankle surgery right before training camp and thereby have him not ready to go when the season starts, you sign the starting QBs brother and have your starter spending more time coaching than in getting ready for the season opener, you have your star receivers and starting QB sitting out in the preseason and they end up not in sync when the season starts, you’ve failed to sign proven players who have gone to other teams and contributed just to save money, you have a coach who makes up crazy slogans about the team and you have an owner who is the most ridiculed owner in the league, you let talent get away year after year and you fail sign veterans like Andrews and TJ when you should have signed new contracts last year. you have a team that doesn’t know what it’s doing because they had the supposed team to go to the superbowl last year but end up picking up a LB on waivers who ends up being the top LB this year and then you come into this season with a team that has enough talent to go to the superbowl but pick up a RB on waivers that happens to be better than all the other RBs you already have. Clearly someone doesn’t know how to judge talent and all the players on this team know it.By John
October 29, 2008 12:21 AM | Link to this
Are we in ‘Dead Coach Walking’ phase? We might be, but only as long as ML allows himself to be. He’ll have to resign to get out of it, or wait till the seats are empty on game day for a while, so MB can fire him.