Arkansas Bengal Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Marvin Lewis: I'll walk away if Bengals win Super Bowl By Chris Wesseling Around the NFL Writer Published: July 30, 2015 at 03:41 p.m. Updated: July 30, 2015 at 03:51 p.m. The Cincinnati Bengals have gone 24 years without a postseason victory, the NFL's longest active streak of ignominy. If Marvin Lewis puts an end to that drought in emphatic fashion with a Super Bowl victory in February, he plans to honor owner Mike Brown and walk off into the sunset. "I want to hand Mike the trophy," Lewis said Tuesday, via the Cincinnati Enquirer's Paul Daugherty, "then just walk away." Although the 13th-year head coach signed an extension in April, he was not joking about the sunset, Daugherty added. Since the 1970 merger, Lewis and Steelers Hall of Famer Chuck Noll are the only head coaches to last 12 consecutive seasons in one organization without a Super Bowl appearance. Whereas Noll's four Lombardi Trophies in the 1970s provided bulletproof job security, Lewis shares the worst playoff record (0-6) in NFL history. To Lewis' credit, he has managed to compile a 100-96-2 record, which stands in stark contrast to the combined 55-149 (.270) mark for all other Bengals coaches under Brown. "Marvin Lewis raised the Titanic," NFL Media analyst and former Bengals safety Solomon Wilcots recently expressed to Around The NFL's Dan Hanzus. "This team was at the bottom of the ocean when he came in. They are (now) a perennial playoff team." Lewis and his coaching staff have assumed more control over personnel matters in recent years, with Brown gradually fading into the background. "I know what's important to him, he knows what's important to me," Lewis explained. "Not (about) players, not necessarily football. The evolution of the building, the transition we've made." The Bengals were surfacing from over a decade of futility as one of the most embarrassing franchises in professional sports when Lewis was hired. He might have raised the Titanic, but his team has conjured up a different brand of "laughingstock" -- as offensive coordinator Hue Jackson recently referenced -- for the annual rite of January when they lose on the first weekend of the playoffs. Armed with a stacked roster that coaching intern T.J. Houshmandzadeh has compared favorably to the franchise record-breaking 2005 squad that ended a 14-year streak without a winning record, Lewis is cautiously optimistic about his chances this season. "We're good enough," Lewis said, "but we have to play good enough." If the Bengals play up to Lewis' expectations, he won't be walking the halls of Paul Brown Stadium next season. If they bow out again in the Wild Card round of the playoffs, on the other hand, don't be surprised if it's embattled quarterback Andy Dalton who vanishes from Cincinnati in 2016. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000505159/article/marvin-lewis-ill-walk-away-if-bengals-win-super-bowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|SF2| Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 If I earn $2 million in commissions this year, I will retire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scharm Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 He needs to run away. Lookin kinda hefty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Hopefully he will also walk away if they don't win a Superbowl. Or a playoff game this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredtoast Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 "World Champion, bitches." Drops microphone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dautcom08 Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 I think that's him telling us he has a meal ticket as long as he wants one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalRugby Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 How much loyalty does that show? Mikey is loyal to a fault, and keeps Black Jesus around in spite of his multitude of failures. That loyalty is repaid by Black Jesus stating he would walk away if he brought a Lombardi to the Queen City? Seems like a one sided relationship... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|High School Harry| Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 "And if you don't win the Super Bowl, your ass is out of here, anyway." Mike Brown btw... the one year extension was so you could retire with dignity rather than have your contract not be renewed after your last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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