02-09-2017, 08:26 PM
(02-09-2017, 07:50 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Thanks for quoting my post, as it drew to my attention to the fact that I may have misinterpreted the spirit of the OP, upon my first reading of it. While my response was pointing out that Andy made good use of his WR2, I totally blew past the part about addressing Zampeze's play calling/offensive strategy. While it's worthless to try to pin the blame on Andy, as his two top targets were out of commission a good part of the season, I also really can't blame the play calling either. We all know that every football play ever created, is designed to score a touchdown. So, the implementation of the strategy of when some plays are called, rather than others depends partly on the opposition's typical response, and offensive execution of the called play. It's no secret that the Bengals OL did not execute very well, thus thwarting chances of success of many plays from the onset.
My big complaint with Zampeze is why did he not raise holy hell for the OL not executing? Is not OL a part of the offense, under the charge of the Offensive Coordinator? My second complaint is why does Paul Alexander get a sub title of "Assistant Head Coach"? Does this mean that he answers to no one other than Marvin Lewis? If this is true, why is our coaching structure set up where a position coach isn't held accountable to his coordinator? Even at that, why is Marvin not shoving his foot knee deep up Alexander's ass?
It's that Bengals "family" mentality. Nobody places winning first because the owner doesn't. Instead of holding coaches accountable, the coaches just blame players or the dreaded "lack of execution".
If Mike Brown placed pressure on the Marvin, Marvin would in turn apply pressure on his coordinators and coordinators would put pressure on the position coaches, etc. Of course, there is no pressure on Marv. The man is so comfortable that he's haggling for an extension on his contract after a 6 win season...so his staff can be comfortable. Smh.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
