Oct 6th 2008 12:06PM by Sportz Assassin (author feed)
Filed under: Bengals, AFC North, NFL Fans, NFL CoachingBengals fans hate a lot of people right now and pretty much everyone associated with the organization in on that list. The guy with the most heat after owner Mike Brown may surprise you: Offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski.

Fans see the offense as unimaginative, predictable and have long questioned the play calling. He came to Cincy in 2001 and has lasted through coaching changes. Just a few years ago, Bratkowski helmed one of the NFL’s best offenses.

Fans have wanted his head over the past couple of seasons and that has affected how he feels about the job:
“Oh, it’s no fun at all,” Bratkowski said. “But it’s my job and, just like everybody else, we keep going forward. You have to have a short memory, and you have to go forward. That’s what we do. You have very little time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself or pout because the next (game) comes up real fast.”
Now when anyone says “it’s my job”, they usually wish they were somewhere else. Offensive coordinators rarely says stuff like that because it isn’t like they are right in the media’s crossfires. They spend the week in film rooms, meetings and practice and don’t have time to see outside the forest.

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