APMarvin Lewis will be back for a 15th season as head coach of the Bengals in 2017, and he said Wednesday that he’d like to get another contract extension done before the season starts.
Speaking to reporters at the Senior Bowl, Lewis didn’t go into great detail but said an extension benefits the whole organization.
“We’d like to agree to something at some point,” Lewis said, per the Cincinnati Enquirer. “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.”
Lewis and the Bengals agreed to an extension last April that put Lewis under contract through 2017. It marked the third consecutive year that Lewis got a one-year extension, and all three were announced in April.
Lewis, 58, is the NFL’s second-longest tenured head coach. Last January, Lewis and the Bengals discussed a succession plan to keep Hue Jackson as offensive coordinator and eventually have Jackson take over for Lewis, but Jackson left to become head coach of the Browns.
Except for the ones that like winning.
Of course he wants an extension before his next dreadful season.
0-7 in playoffs.
Yes we were bad before he got here, but we are trending back that way. Marvin been here to long.
Send him off with Pacman and that crazy Burfict.
Almost anyone new would be better …
The primary beneficiaries would be the other teams in the AFC North.
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Tonight on NFL Network
” From the Playoffs to the 9th Pick in the Draft ” : The Marvin Lewis Story
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Regular season: 113–94–3 (.545)
Postseason: 0–7 (.000)
Career: 113–101–3 (.528)
Jeff Fisher:
Regular season: 173–165–1 (.512)
Postseason: 5–6 (.455)
Career: 178–171–1 (.510)
Some teams are perfectly content with ‘eh, good enough’.
Extension benefits the rest of the AFC
I understand the self-esteem scars of the Bengals’ past as a Browns caliber jobber has created this eternal gratitude to Marvin Lewis, but enough already.
Lewis has consistently kept one of the most talented teams in the NFL as average to above average for far too long. As soon as they get a new Coach, they make the AFCCG and Super Bowl within 2 years. if they keep Lewis they will continue to be the AFC Giants if the Giants never won the Super Bowl …
It does not benefit those of us in the fan base that want to win in th playoffs. I have said this before and I will say it again. You can’t be afraid of making changes. Look at the Broncos, they went to the SB, lost and fired their coach. Next year they win with a new coach. Continuation of coaches is a good thing but if they fail to win then you can’t be afraid to change. Same with that redheaded choker at QB.
I’m embarrassed for this guy, coaching the Bengals since 2003 and he has the same amount of playoff wins as I do.
And yet he’s fishing for yet more $$/years.
well, this is kind of like telling my company to keep me when i’m actually not doing anything…
Ever notice how no one talks about The Bengals and how coaching stability has brought success?
Please sign a multiyear deal.Please.
Never won a playoff game, keeps a Pacman and Burfict on the roster. Those reasons alone should have had him vamoosed years ago.
I am sure Lewis would Love an extension for his mediocre behind.
15 years, 2nd longest tenure in NFL.
Who’s #1? Belichick. Similar last 15 years.
And I thought the re-signing of Nancy Pelosi after the Dems nationally being at near 90 year lows was the dumbest reward for terrible results I could imagine.
Those must be some pictures Marvin.
Dsperate, Marv?
Please don’t make him earn it with a playoff win this year anything less and it’s bust time to change it up if things don’t work this year.
“same with the red headed choker QB”
Doesn’t Marvin Lewis coach Dalton as well? Along with all the other players and QBs who have choked?
Dear Marvin thanks for your time here. You took this team as far as you can and applaude you for that but the time has come where the team is stuck in quick sand so have some humiliaton and either take a front office job or please leave…time for some new blood!
Bengal fans
Agreed on a coaching change – it’s long overdue. Ditto on Pacman – his latest incident drudges up the past and reinforces an outdated narrative for the team that’s simply no longer true. For those calling for Burfict to be gone? Child please – he’s the driving force of the defense, more so than Atkins. There would be 31 teams inquiring about his services if he were available. I get the villain role but don’t pretend you’re above having that talent on your team. Also he has zero off field issues – for all the fans of teams that demonize him he had one unnecessary roughness penalty all season. Look around the league – other players did worse things in 2016.
Seriously, how does he keep his job?! Does he have naked photos of someone or something???
No need to sign an extension, and that transition plan concocted with Hue taking over will indeed happen. He’ll have a terrible season with the Browns, and Lewis with the Bengals, but that weirdo owner will have no problem installing Jackson, since that was going to be the plan all along anyways and he’s been talked up by Lewis. Lewis can then coach Cleveland as the consolation “prize”.
Win/win for both men, lose/lose for both fanbases.
As if Bengal fans weren’t already in a zombie state of complacency, why not extend Marvins contract. Marvin, like the Brown family that owns the Bengals have no burning desire to win a super bowl , getting into the playoffs is the Bengals version of winning the super bowl. And Marvin is perfectly fine with that.
elyasm says:
Jan 25, 2017 6:43 PM
Regular season: 113–94–3 (.545)
Postseason: 0–7 (.000)
Career: 113–101–3 (.528)
Jeff Fisher:
Regular season: 173–165–1 (.512)
Postseason: 5–6 (.455)
Career: 178–171–1 (.510)
Some teams are perfectly content with ‘eh, good enough’.
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Some teams don’t need to win… In fact for some teams winning is BAD… Winning for them means interference of the “bottom line”. Winning, upsets apple carts.
It will hurt for awhile, San Diego but one morning you all will wake up, breath the morning air, have that cup of coffee and then give thanks that you’re not Cincinnati.
Hard to get off the welfare teat….#institutionalized
Finally, somebody gets it.
-Jeff Fisher
I wonder if he’d say that if coach contracts were not guaranteed. Very self-serving statement.
Well of course it would put HIS mind at ease to get an extension before the season, that way he doesn’t have to worry if the Bengals stink again. Maybe if they would wait until AFTER the season to give him an extension it would light a fire under him. Maybe, just maybe…
How about we save the contract extension until AFTER you win a playoff game this year? I think that’s a perfectly legitimate plan.
Bengals…. SMH.
A team that is constantly…. ALMOST there.
Why is he entering the next season?
Regular season: 113–94–3 (.545)
Postseason: 0–7 (.000)
Career: 113–101–3 (.528)
Jeff Fisher:
Regular season: 173–165–1 (.512)
Postseason: 5–6 (.455)
Career: 178–171–1 (.510)
Some teams are perfectly content with ‘eh, good enough’.4
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I think your missing the point… Marv has three ties, that has to be a record! Maybe not a record, but theme of his career.
As a bengal fan, I will just say for a good number of years I would have taken a tie.
And Bengals fans wonder why they get almost no respect from fans of the Steelers and Ravens.
It’s called WINNING, Bagels fans. Not winning regular season games, although that matters. Not winning one lousy playoff game, although that matters. You have to have the desire and the ability to WIN, as in make, even win a Super Bowl. But for gosh sakes, at least win one darned playoff game before you start with the “we’re just as good as you, maybe better” talk.
You want to stop hearing your team called the “Bungles”, the “Bagels”, the “Bingles”? Try WINNING. EVERYONE IN THE LEAGUE HAS WON A PLAYOFF GAME SINCE YOUR TEAM LAST DID IT, even the Lions, Browns, Jets, and Bills.
And it’s not going to happen until Mikey Brown gets it in his head that Marvin may be the answer, but not to the relevant question.
Sure this Bum wants an extension… he knows nobody else would hire him and his pathetic playoff record….not to mention the clowns like Pacman who he constantly defends. Send him and Pacman packing. He shouldn’t even have a job
Marvin is right. Extending the coach does have a positive affect on the entire organization, but you’re dealing with Mike Brown. When was the last time the Bengals won the super bowl? Nuff said.