Are Bengals on the decline?

[moemoron]

(01-15-2016, 09:37 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: WTS that a shakeup in the coaching staff won't be a benefit?  DL is completely loaded, for whomever takes over as DL coach.  A stricter, disciplinarian at LB coach could just be what the Dr. ordered.  As far as the Secondary goes, Carrier is still on board.  I can't see the team not signing Iloka and Williams to lengthy deals, in fact I could see them bringing Jones back on a modest deal.  And, if there is any merit to the notion that Kevin Coyle is going to be the hire to replace Vance Joseph, or even that DB coach from UM, everything should be just fine for the defense.

Offense shouldn't really lose much.  Moving Zampese into the OC position should pretty much keep things stable, for all of the players.  I wouldn't expect much of a change in overall scheme, which was working very well until Andy went down.  Whomever gets the QB coach position is blessed with the job of coaching a 5 year veteran, for whom the game has seemed to "slow down" immensely in the past year.  Not sure why the OP feels that it is likely that both Marvin Jones and Mo Sanu will be leaving in free agency, I'd put my cards on them to be retained.

With that said, I would not say the Bengals are heading into a decline.

Edit:  I did not know that Mark Carrier had also stepped down, at the time I wrote this post

Excellent post.
I agree.