Is Marvin Lewis a much better coach than what he gets credit for?

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Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Doug, you have a grammatical pet peeve of mine in the title of this thread. The 'what' is completely unnecessary. It's something I hear buffoon color commentators like Troy Aikman say all the time: "He's playing way better than what he was last year" and it drives me nuts.

Oh, and for the eternal victim up there, his argument was never that Lewis was a good coach statistically or strategically. It was always something meaningless like "Lewis is old school, he's a nice guy, he's a straight talker", etc. and therefore he shouldn't be fired.

I never stated I was a victim. I stated two participants in the thread were mean. I went back through it, and it's true. I was not a victim at all. I held my own. I did not mention Lewis as old school, straight talker, nothing remotely like that. My argument was all statistically based as his won loss record at the time in his 8 years were astronomically better than the 12 previous years of Bengal football. He greatly improved the team. Or the team magically improved when he became head coach...one or the other. With the upcoming lockout I argued it would be wrong also to change coaches. It was pretty much all statistically based. I looked simply at his record while coach and compared it to the previous 12 years of Bengal football. The conclusion was fairly obvious to me and I stated he didn't deserve to be fired at that time.

your qoutes are flat out lies, and were never my argument at any point in that thread. My argument was always the team improved significantly when Lewis became head coach. I am now intrigued by the routine where you spread lies and falsities, I may have to return more often now for a couple months of pure entertainment. I do occasionally look at threads on here, but refrain from posting. I was very shocked to see a Marvin Lewis thread as I remember vividly that "discussion" where crap was thrown my way. Blame Calzone for my return.