Injuries as an excuse

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(09-03-2021, 11:50 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yes. I know there are other reasons. There are many threads about them. Feel free to discuss all those other reasons in detail in those other threads. But this thread is about injuries.

I have seen the top teams in the league with the best coaches struggle when hit by injuries. It is ridiculous to say that better health would not improve the teams chances of winning. In fact many times when an experienced, winning head coach has a down year it is excused if his team had a lot of key injuries.

Good condition aches deal with injuries better than bad ciaches, but sometimes even good coaches lose due to injury.

I did say they would be better if they were healthier, not sure where you came up with this.

(09-03-2021, 11:55 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Agree 100%. My point was that it was pathetic that a cripple got 120 snaps last year.

Not bashing Geno.  In a few years he may be my all time favorite Bengal. But he was completely useless last year.

If management/coaches weren't playing guys like Geno and look for other players, we would be better as well.  My point is that Bengals management deals poorly with injuries by not having adequate depth and also lack of creativeness when signing/trading players.   Management is also responsible for hiring bottom-of-the-barrel coaches who cannot game plan around weak spots in the team due to injuries.  I think that the OL carousel last year had more to do with terrible play than injuries.  This year's strategy has been similar to last year's.  

Having as many injuries as we did last year really magnifies our ineptness of management/coaching.  Our most significant injury (Joe Burrow) is a direct result of this and so is our 5th straight losing team.