Marvin Lewis

Nobody's arguing that.

But the odd part of the Cincinnati Bengals is we think ineptitude until we go the year by year, and you're like, you know, Marvin Lewis had them in the playoffs a lot.

Five times? Sam Weiss had them in the playoffs and in the Super Bowl.

They actually haven't been as embarrassing as we think.

Nobody's arguing that.

But the odd part of the Cincinnati Bengals is we think ineptitude until we go the year by year, and you're like, you know, Marvin Lewis had them in the playoffs a lot.

Maybe five times? Sam Weiss had them in the playoffs and in the Super Bowl.

They actually haven't been as embarrassing as we think.

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Welcome in to another edition of Inside Football as we get you set for week two of the NFL season.

And what the hell did we process in week one? So glad you are here with us, us being Marvin Lewis, Hall of Famer Chris Carter, and of course, Steve Kine, longtime front office exec and general manager of the Arizona Cardinals.

Guys, week one was sort of a smorgasbord of, I expected that, and I did not see that coming.

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always mess that one up, always.

Brian Cook, who actually was a camper at the Marvin Lewis football camp.

So there's a start there.

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Inside Football is our weekly deep dive with Marvin Lewis, Chris Carter, and Steve Keim, breaking down football through the lens of a Hall of Fame player, a coach, and a general manager.

This show's part of the Wingo Network, and if you're liking what you're hearing, go check it out on its own feed by searching Inside Football wherever you get your podcasts.

And speaking of that, let's transition to our other really important game out of week one, is what we saw out of Chicago.

You've talked about, like, even in this new phase, like, there's still parts of that where the emotions of what you weren't able to do with Sean McDermott will always live with you.

It resonated to me because I always tell people when I moved to L.A., Like, the one thing I look back on my career, even though it ended great, like, I just wish we'd have got Marvin Lewis, that playoff win that, like, he deserved for all the great years, all the work he put in there.

But I always say, like, and the way I look at it is that, like, there's a lot of who I am and the person I became that was raised up through Marvin Lewis.

Yeah.

And I'm sure you feel that way

You mentioned the, the, the pairing of Baker and Todd Bowles.

Bowles.It's basically a glorified Andy Dalton, Marvin Lewis.

Like, uh, the, what is your ceiling other than maybe a first round exit maybe at best, 'cause we saw them do it, get to the second round, right?

Mm-hmm.

winner.

It's like the Marvin Lewis era of the Bengals.

That's what they are right now.

No offense to