Zac Taylor vs Marvin Lewis

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(12-25-2021, 01:51 AM)Whatever Wrote: This is because of 2 main reasons.

First, Marvin's Bengals took Palmer #1 overall before there was a rookie wage scale and Palmer got a massive (at that time) 6 year, $42.7 mil rookie deal.  That drastically cuts down the money available for free agents.

Second, Marvin had nowhere near the complete rebuild that Zac had to do.  Look at the starters on the '05 club that were holdovers from previous coaches...

Rudi Johnson
Chad Johnson
TJ Houshmanzadeh
Willie Anderson
Rich Braham
Levi Jones
Justin Smith
Brian Simmons

Compared to for Zac in '21...

Tyler Boyd
CJ Uzomah
Trey Hopkins
Sam Hubbard
Jessie Bates

Marvin had 3 All Pro's and 5 Pro Bowlers that he would carry over 3 years into his rebuild.  Zac has 1 All Pro and no Pro Bowlers.  Marvin inherited a much stronger core of talent that was entering their primes.  The top tier talent that Zac got were past their sell by date.  

First of all you forgot that Taylor inherited Joe Mixon.

Second, not a single player that Marvin inherited had made a Pro Bowl until he coached them up.  In fact all that impressive "talent" that you claim Marvin inherited won only 2 games with a different coach the year before he arrived.  Meanwhile all the shitty players you complain about Taylor inheriting won 6 games with Marvin as coach.