2 stats for why 2024 is huge for the Bengals

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(04-22-2024, 12:27 PM)depthchart Wrote: 2. No QB/HC duo in NFL history have ever won their first SB together later than their 5th year together.


   Number 2 may relate more to Ownership impatience where they don't allow the Coach & QB to stay together

   long enough to get more chances to win.

   Example: Coach Marty Schottenheimer Coached QB Phillip Rivers in 2004, 2005 & 2006 and was FIRED after the

                  2006 season after going 14 and 2 then losing in the Divisional round of the Playoffs. (They didn't even get 5 years together)

   *Bengals Ownership may let Burrow & Zac stay together well beyond 5 years giving them more chances to do it.

Rivers then had more than 5 years with his next HC, having 6 years with Norv Turner and still didn't win a SB. 14-2 or not, Marty Schottenheimer was never going to win a SB. Guy coached for 21 years and won 5 playoff games. When the Chargers fired him he hadn't won a single playoff game in the previous 13 years.

5 years is a REALLY long time in the NFL. You can't use the word impatience when talking about waiting 5 years in the NFL. That's the majority of a great player's productive years (AJ Green was basically done after 7 years, Chad after 9 years, Corey Dillon after 8 years) and 1/3rd of a franchise QB's career (probably more when you figure they normally aren't great their rookie year and have 1-2 twilight years at the end).