Bengals' Lewis Need Not Apologize

The Cincinnati Bengals never fail to embarrass long times fans. As if the last two thoroughly humbling games--themselves inane exercises in offensive futility versus the New York Jets--weren't enough, the latest setback comes from head coach Marvin Lewis himself. Today he apologized for not winning playoff games.

Head coaches needn't apologize when the team's owner fails, twenty years running, to hire someone with football operations expertise to oversee general operations. The problem's not coaching. The problem's the lack of player personnel, clean and simple.

The team is short a good wide receiver (we need someone to replace the late Chris Henry or T.J. Houshmandzadeh, who should never have been permitted to leave under free agency) and a stout defensive back or two. Until those holes are filled, this team will be lucky to again win 10 games in any given season.

So it goes.