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

[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.

[horseofcourse]

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.

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

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 went back and read the thread also. No one was mean to you. You're just on your quarterly desperation for attention kick.

Find someone else to get it from, victim.

[horseofcourse]

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.

What I find funny is this Calzone comes on here stating pretty bluntly what I stated 2 years ago almost exactly word for word.....what a pit of hell the organization was, what I said two years ago....how bad Mike Brown is, what I said two years ago....my argument was pretty much for all intents and purposes what he stated. I simply stated it after a bad 4-12 season however and pretty much every single person on the thread but namely two on here took me to the woodshed. You crticize this Doug's grammar. Evidently he knows something that I don't by stating what I stated or something like that??

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

No, that's pretty much a lie. Flat out. It's pretty sad, when you can actually go look at that thread. It's still there.

[Calzone Lord]

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.

I know almost as much about grammar as I do football.

It's a photo finish.