Marvin Lewis will enter his 15th season as head coach of the Bengals and would prefer to work out an extension to keep the window open for future years. The longtime Cincinnati leader is entering a contract year but wants to extend his coaching window in southwest Ohio beyond 2017 and continue to pursue the franchise’s first championship.
“We’d like to agree to something at some point,” Lewis said, via Jim Owczarski of the Cincinnati Enquirer, regarding an interest in receiving an extension. “It puts, I think, everybody’s mind at ease going forward for their futures. A lot of the people in the building, it makes it easier on them.”
The 58-year-old coach resided in the same position last offseason but ended up avoiding lame-duck status by inking an extension in April. The last coming out of Cincinnati on this topic was not centered on an extension for the league’s second-longest-tenured coach, but Lewis appears to be pointing to the security for his staff with the desire to sign for at least one more season. Owczarski notes Lewis and Mike Brown continue to work on the coach’s deal.
The Bengals are coming off one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise history, but Brown elected to stay the course with Lewis. His teams qualified for the playoffs from 2011-15 and have done so on six occasions in the past eight years, but the the veteran-fueled Bengals slunk to 6-9-1 in 2016.
When is enough, enough? Answer is now. Ever seen ground hog day? Come to Cincy. Thanks Marvin for pulling the bengals out of the laughing stock of professional sports over the years. The thing is…. We want more now. Thanks but no thanks…. At this point I wish we would have held on to Jay Gruden and Mike Zimmer….jury is out on Hue Jackson. Best wishes and thanks for getting us to respectable….it will take someone else to get us over the top….ps take pac-man with you.
Playoffs six years in a row is a good track record to me. He would have been close to a seventh this year but there were a lot of missed kicks. I don’t understand this “fire the coach” nonsense, he’s the one that got the team this far. Who do you have to replace him with that you know will be better?
He wants security for his staff for one more year, wouldn’t it be the same excuse next year on a one year extension?
Mediocrity at its finest. Marv just now gets it that he should start some youth over vets. It took him 15 years to figure this out. As much as I want them to win a Super Bowl. I dont see it happening ever happening with him as coach. I hope im wrong but I doubt it. He has no killer instinct.
Dump his sorry ass. What has he done? He can’t win a playoff game if he makes the playoffs. And he breeds thugs. Real role models with his team’s. Who does he have pictures of?
Maybe working on the last year of his contract would increase Marvin’s sense of urgency to win. At this point after 15 years of secure employment Marvin’s should cease worrying about his next deal and do something to earn it. It seems to me he is just looking for the extra guaranteed contract year should he ever be terminated. It is a smart move if he can get Mike Brown to agree to it. Based on history I bet on Marvin.