12-22-2022, 01:09 AM
(12-21-2022, 11:20 AM)jason Wrote: Fair-ish... A spade is a spade though, and they were garbage for two years. They were better last year, but still nothing to write home about. The moral of the story is that faith and patience may sometimes be rewarded. Also the first apple on the Zac Taylor coaching tree may fall... Lou doesn't strike me as HC material, but I've been wrong before... Especially about him.
It's a lot like the offensive line. It's improving, and good enough to keep you in games. Burrow and his boys make splash plays here and there, the defense gets a timely turnover and is actually pretty good in the red zone. Like I said though, the same two things sunk Marvin his last two years. The offensive line, and the defense. That's probably why I had a little more patience with these guys than a lot of others. A sixteen year vet was struggling to win more than 5-6 games, I assumed a rookie HC would not do a lot better. I didn't see 2-14, but I figured there'd be struggles and you'd need to flip the roster and get a franchise QB as quickly as possible. Then see how they did. Look where we are.....but I don't think there were very many people that thought this no name DB coach could get them to play team and opportunistic defense. I didn't. You always see guys hustling to the ball. They play fundamentally sound. They tackle well. Hilton is great in run support.
