2 stats for why 2024 is huge for the Bengals

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(04-22-2024, 01:57 PM)depthchart Wrote: No one can definitively know what Schottenheimer may have been able to do with a few more years with Rivers. (They lost more chances together)

Impatience may not be the right word but I do expect the Bengals to have more patience with Zac & his Staff thus giving him beyond 5 years 

worth of chances to win it all with Burrow.

*We may need to find Coaches that had a QB in Burrow's Class that got 6 or more years together to see exactly how many of these type of Chances

  actually occurred.  

 Zac may get more bites at the apple than most Coaches would get Historically (if Ownership remains patient)

Just like that guy who died building a homemade rocket to try to get to space was never going to reach space no matter how many more tries he got and if Marvin Lewis was still our HC throughout the Joe Burrow era we would never have reached the SB (heck, just look at the 6th, 7th, and 8th years of the Lewis/Palmer era or the 6th, 7th, and 8th years of the Lewis/Dalton era) we can comfortably say Marty Schottenheimer was never going to win a SB. Ever. 

A 6th year of hitting a rock with an egg will not change the fact that the egg is going to break before the rock. There's a reason that despite getting fired after a 14-2 season he never was a coach in the NFL ever again.

Coaches that got a Burrow Class QB for >6 years and didn't win a SB...
Dan Marino. He and Don Shula were together for 13 years.
Philip Rivers. He and Norv Turner were together for 6 years.
Jim Kelly. He and Marv Levy were together for 10 years.
John Elway. He and Dan Reeves were together for 10 years.
Matt Ryan. He and Mike Smith were together for 7 years.
Boomer Esiason. He and Sam Wyche were together for 8 years.
Fran Tarkenton. He and Bud Grant were together for 12 years.
Dan Fouts. He and Don Coryell were together for 7 years.

There's more, but I just don't feel like looking up more. Lol

Alternatively to a Joe Burrow class QB, Andy Reid is a future HoF coach and he and Donovan McNabb were paired together for 11 years, no SB. Then Andy Reid and Alex Smith were together for 5 years, no SB, they made a change despite Alex Smith having led the NFL in QB Rating the previous year and having a 116.2 rating in their playoff loss and put in Patrick Mahomes and got 3 rings. 

If you're sure one of the two of your combination is THE guy, then you eventually need to make a change with the other because clearly something isn't working and just hanging around trying to make it work when it hasn't is not a solution. It has never been a solution in all of NFL history and is how you just get another Dan Marino.