03-10-2017, 01:15 PM
(03-10-2017, 01:02 PM)Wyche Wrote: Rep.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I am REALLY hoping he puts it all together, for our sake and Dalton's. My issue is the lack of a backup plan by this FO, moreso than any personal vendetta against Ced, or even Piano Man. It's the FO's fault we are in this position, and their fault we have an oline coach that says he can't coach up players during the season. This was a TOTALLY Bungaled FA, no other way to put it. Lose your two best FAs, and overpay for an average one. Only in Son of Paul's bizarro world my friend....and I still say Zeitler should have been extended long before this became a fiasco. Just bush league management.
Yeah, honestly I don't know what hurts (in damage to the team and hurting the morale of fans) more between losing Whit and Zeitler. Letting Whit go may have been a better business decision - I mean I loved everything about him but paying 35 year old guys top dollar is not the path to the Super Bowl so maybe it was - not smart, but acceptable. And maybe they tried to extend Zeitler? I dunno - maybe it was a personality thing, maybe he didn't like the city, who knows? I would have been happy to see both or either return for sure, but all we can do at this point is hope that the two tackles we drafted last year step up and hope that the rest of the line does too. They have a full off season to learn together and hopefully be a cohesive unit come fall. I am not holding my breath, but I am also not getting out by striped voodoo dolls. You know how it is as a Bengals fan - our theme song is:
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
