Rapien and Pike lay it out

[TheFan]

(10-14-2021, 09:14 PM)Wyche Wrote: Eh.... I'd blame him for GB. We shouldn't have been in the position to have to kick a game winner. Chicago? I gotta go with number 9 on that one. He had a rough game, and Tee fumbled another. I think we easily win that game without the turnovers. 

I'm pretty sure both Burrow and Chase called out the play calling in the Bears game telling ZT that they were sitting EVERYTHING yet it took him until the 4th quarter to finally change his play calling. 

Just because we're 3-2 doesn't mean it's because of ZT when we're a top 5 defense and bottom half offense. The defense has kept us in every game and we've been able to win but we should be winning all of these games going away (except maybe GB) with good play calling.

Again, it's not just Pike and Rapien calling out Taylor's play calling. It's not just the Bengals he has failed as a play caller; this is his 3rd attempt with equally bad results. 

I think Fred posted about how he's one of the only coaches ever to come in for a fired OC mid season and put up worse numbers. Miami fired Bill Lazor (a guy who everyone knows sucked here as OC) and then Taylor led the same team to even less ppg. 

In Miami he averaged 17.0 ppg.
2019 with Bengals averaged 17.4
2020 with Bengals averaged 19.4
2021 with Bengals averaged 22.8 and thats with an extra half of play compared to most teams.
That's who we have running our offense and you wonder why people think he might be the problem?