The Bengals bringing back Marvin Lewis is a strategy to maintain relevancy through being a running joke.

The Bengals... Bringing Marvin Lewis back and continuing his contract and continuing him coaching, it's almost like a running joke they've created themselves that gives them relevancy where everyone can be like, Marvin Lewis jokes. So you at least have an identity that everyone can make fun of Marvin Lewis.

The worst thing you can do at an office job is have people set high expectations for you.

You don't want to be great at your job. You don't want to be really, really bad at your job. You just kind of want to just go with the speed of traffic... That is the worst thing that you can do to yourself is make people have high expectations. It's a low bar in Cincinnati. I love it.

Bruce Arians will be back to coaching within two months of his retirement.

Bruce Arians, he's retired. But as we know, he's not going to know what to do with himself. He's just going to sit on his porch staring out into infinity for two months, and he'll think that's retirement, and then he'll be like, I've got to get back to coaching.

Having two teams from the same conference in the College Football Playoff is bad for the sport.

It's two teams from any conference. Like that just bothers me... If there are more teams outside that are deserving, that there's teams out there that are worthy of playing for a championship that we don't need to take two teams from the same conference... for [Ohio State] not to get that opportunity, I think it's messed up.

Alabama's 2017 schedule was a 'cakewalk' and they were manhandled by Auburn.

Bama's schedule was a cakewalk all season long. Their toughest game was Florida State, who turned out to be garbage... And they got worked by Auburn. They got absolutely manhandled by Auburn, and yet never once did anybody say, oh, wait a second, Alabama's schedule is not that tough.

The College Football Playoff should be an eight-team system with five conference champions and three wildcards.

I try to get the easiest, simplest solution... And it's five conference champs and three wild cards. And everything would matter that much more because the conference championships would matter... and the three wild cards make those valuable.