01-23-2023, 03:44 PM
(01-23-2023, 03:23 PM)jj22 Wrote: In the AFCN you have to have some "dog" as the young kids say. You can't have a team full of choir boys as some old heads would say. Marvin sacrificed character for that "dog" and while it gave us the edge we needed to have some bite against some of the other "dogs" in the AFCN, but we paid a heavy price for it with penalties, arrests, and emotional meltdowns.
Zac has somehow gotten players with edge and fight, without the character flaws. This team is full of choir boys, but yesterday showed me they have bark AND bite to go along with high character.
This team seems finesse, but somehow they aren't. They are tough and physical, without all the character sacrifices that haunted us in the past. Zac and the Front Office has done a great job walking that thin line this new era.
I was literally just speaking to a buddy about this same thing. ZT treating playing for the Bengals like a job and interviewing these guys in FA & draft process. Vetting them out. He had a vision, sold the club on that vision, and then stuck to it.
Kudos to the Bengals FO for getting on board with the unproven. How many times on this board was the argument made to not fire Marvin due to the unknown? "Who else you going to get?". Same w Andy Dalton. The fear of the unknown is crippling.... but visionaries are motivated by the possibilities.
Very impressive. Could NOT be more thrilled with the roster makeup and direction of the franchise.
