SmoothD Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 Don't know if anyone has been paying attention to the Broncos. They look pretty good with an average QB and a dominating defense. Really wished that the Bengals could have kept him for one more year, and possibly made him the next head coach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|schotzee| Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 Yea, thanks for the reminder. Now I feel better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothD Posted September 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 I truly believe that if Denver doesn't offer him their head coach position, he would be coaching the Bengals next year. Article written Jan 2015 http://www.espn.com/blog/cincinnati-bengals/post/_/id/15391/bengals-marvin-lewis-vance-joseph-mike-brown-star-assistant Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis made the media rounds in Arizona on Thursday as he fulfilled various Super Bowl Week appearances. It was during a seven-minute appearance on ESPN's "NFL Insiders" in the afternoon that Lewis spoke publicly for the second time about the standoff the Bengals and Broncos had this month over assistant coach Vance Joseph. Last week during the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, Lewis told Bengals.com and the Cincinnati Enquirer that the decision to block Joseph, one of the Bengals' co-defensive backs coaches, from leaving for Denver was "a hard one." It was so hard because team president Mike Brown recognizes Joseph's value, Lewis said on the television show Thursday. "My boss and owner sees him as a star," Lewis said, "and a guy that, as I told Vance, he could be sitting in my chair very quickly." Lewis then added, laughing: "It could be next year." Viewed in several NFL circles as an up-and-comer in the coaching ranks, the 42-year-old Joseph had been granted permission by the Bengals to interview for the Broncos' head-coaching vacancy that came open when John Fox was fired following Denver's divisional-round playoff loss to Indianapolis. Four days after Joseph's interview, former Ravens offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak was announced as Fox's replacement. Not long after, word leaked that Kubiak and his new bosses favored bringing Joseph on board as they tried to fill their empty defensive coordinator position. Before joining the Bengals last offseason, Joseph had served as Kubiak's defensive backs coach for three years when Kubiak was the head coach of the Houston Texans. Once they discovered the Broncos' intentions, the Bengals blocked Joseph from voiding his contract in order to leave for the coordinator position. Had he instead been offered the head-coaching job, perhaps their stance would have been different. Denver on Wednesday hired longtime coach Wade Phillips to run the defense. "Vance understands how things work. All coaches do," Lewis said Thursday. "Anytime you're in that situation as a coach, the very first thing should be if I can be released from my contract. As we know, as you look across the league, some are and some aren't, and that's part of the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeds Orange Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Meh. The Bengals let Bill Walsh slip away a few years ago and that worked out fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 10 minutes ago, Bleeds Orange said: Meh. The Bengals let Bill Walsh slip away a few years ago and that worked out fine. ...for the 49ers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostInDaJungle Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 But the Broncos are starting Peko, and if I've learned anything from this board in two seasons... Peko sucks. Hmmmm..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turningpoint Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Imagine if the bengals hired Mike McCoy to OC after the Chargers canned him....i bet we'd be 2-0 and people would be saying we look like a superbowl team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredtoast Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 Not trying to bash Vance. I think he will be a fine NFL coach. But I just want to remind everyone that last year at this time Mike Zimmer was being called the best coach in the league, and he did not even make the playoffs. Of course some people here claim it looks better for a head coach to miss the playoffs completely than to make the playoffs and lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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