Zac Taylor Changed the Culture of Cincinnati Football

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(12-22-2021, 04:26 AM)basballguy Wrote: Ok...i'm super late to this thread.....

But Zac Taylor hasn't changed shit.  

Joe Burrow on the other hand......he hasn't "changed the culture" either....however he has "injected life" into the franchise...which i think is what you really should be saying....."Joe Burrow injected life into our franchise"

Back to ZT.....and I'll preface this with making sure we know i'm a Marvin Lewis hater.......

Marvin Lewis CHANGED THE CULTURE.....dude couldn't win a playoff game to save his life but he sure as hell showed us what it looked and felt like to be winners.  

Zac Taylor has not given us a culture shock yet....he's done a lot of things i like (like 2nd half adjustments...which ML sucked at)....but there has not been a culture change from him.  

I don't even know we need a culture change....I think we just need a leader.

If you're analyzing the scope of Bengals history, your point is understood. The Bengals were a joke of a franchise throughout the entire 1990s and Marvin was part of the change in culture to bring some respectability back to the entire organization. He accomplished this with winning seasons and playoff football, albeit first round losses.

Marvin's final years, however, were marked by losing. People aren't discussing Zac changing the culture in the same context as Marvin, but are rather discussing how Zac worked to stop the losing ways he inherited from Marvin. Zac viewed this as changing the locker room culture to have more professionalism and a solid coach & player rapport, it seems. Marvin changing the franchise culture was more expansive than Zac's changes, but both have made their impact on the Bengals. It was just in different ways.