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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/Ok-Health-7252 on 2024-04-06 20:10:38.
For us the Bengals are a family business so of course there’s nepotism everywhere in the FO but the worst of it was Mike Brown’s refusal to hire coaches outside of the Bengals’ fraternity who didn’t have past ties to the organization throughout the 90s (see every head coaching hire he made prior to Marvin Lewis). Picked Dave Shula over Bill Cowher as head coach in '92 because Shula had been on Wyche’s staff the previous year as WRs coach and Brown liked him and promoted both Bruce Coslet and Dick LeBeau from interim to permanent because of their past histories in Cincinnati.