Joey B talks to Collinsworth

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(04-22-2021, 12:55 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I agree. Marvin was NEVER given multiple free agents with huge contracts. Instead he had to develope the players he drafted and get by with table scraps in free agency.

ZT is getting benefits Marvin could not even dream of.

Marvin didn't need big money FAs. And, he did sign and trade for a bunch of guys his first few years in Cincy to remake the roster on defense. He had some of the most talented rosters in football because the Bengals drafted extremely well for 2/3rds of his time in Cincinnati. They spent a ton of money keeping their own, very talented players. Marvin also had a franchise record setting QB to start with. Andy Dalton and John Kitna are basically a push.

ZT is also developing the players he has drafted. The Bengals had the best draft in all of football last year. And they signed very few big $ FAs Taylor's first season. If the Bengals had any talented veterans when ZT came, they would have kept them. But, they didn't, save for Lawson & WJ3. The team opted to let those guys walk and sign FAs that were cheaper (in WJ3s case) or a lateral move (Hendrickson).

ZT's roster was crap when he got here. Why was ZT hired in the first place? Because Marvin was losing with these guys... HIS guys. And they weren't young, up and coming studs ... like they were when Marvin got here. They were broken down, aged horses who's best years were left on a race track somewhere in 2015.