It’s Now or Never for Marvin Lewis and the Bengals

The Cincinnati head coach cares about his players and he cares about winning, but there’s one thing he cares about most—winning it all. Lewis knows that his time as an NFL head coach is dwindling, so the pressure’s on for these Bengals.

CINCINNATI — Football coaches are creatures of habit, and every Friday Marvin Lewis gets a haircut. He doesn’t have much hair left so people don’t believe him when he says he gets it cut weekly. This week, though, he went nine days between cuts—a product of the start of training camp—and his hair got a little unruly.

When Lewis was hired to be the Bengals’ head coach in 2003, he came to Cincinnati with solid-black hair and a receding but defined hairline.…