When Marvin Lewis showed up for his first NFL scouting combine as head coach of the Bengals in 2003, Bill Parcells, Marty Schottenheimer, and Bill Cowher, with Joe Gibbs on deck, were still coaching.
Current Rams head coach Sean McVay still had a year of high school left and Lewis had hitched his star to the No. 1 draft pick that year as USC quarterback Carson Palmer snuck out a back door after he did some work in Indianapolis’ now defunct RCA Dome that was draped in Kremlin secrecy.
Now Lewis arrives next week in Indy for one of these all-access combines with four other NFL head coaches who once assisted him in Cincinnati while he and New England’s Bill Belichick preside as two of the 11 coaches in NFL history that have run the same team for at least 15 straight years.