2020 should be a great year

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(01-04-2020, 11:19 AM)Benton Wrote: Marvin was here 78 years. Almost every player was Marvin's player. Almost every player had been taught how to play by... Marvin.

The players got better as the season went on. They'll get better next season. As you mention with the draft, it's not like Zac walked in to a stacked team.
He walked into what Marvin had built. Hard to turn a shack into a mansion in one season.


And I agree on the draft. I haven't been happy with one in five or six years. But hopefully two things will help: 1 not having Marvin's input and 2 picking first with a couple of likely decent players on the board.

The playcalling never got better as the season went on.

-The Bengals came into Week 5 going against the Cardinals who were the WORST defense in the league against TEs. They didn't have a single target to a TE for the first 35 minutes of the game. Not one.
-They ran multiple 4th and inches QB runs out of the shotgun.
-They had 1st and Goal from the 2 and threw the ball 3 straight times. 
-They had 1st and Goal from the 8 and ran the ball 2 straight times.

They might be mostly Marvin guys, but Zac Taylor was here when they signed Bobby Hart, Preston Brown, Webb. He was here when they drafted a blocking TE in the 2nd round, a crappy QB in the 4th. They drafted Michael Jordan in the 4th and slotted him in as a starter, and he was terrible.

Nobody that Taylor has added to this team in 2019 has made me think that a team full of "his guys" will make things better instead of worse.

Even if he didn't have a loaded team, he didn't have a team that should have been 1-14 coming into Week 17. He is a bad coach.

(01-04-2020, 01:09 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Agree about Taylor giving up play calling, Disagree about Lou, I think he should get one more year. He has the defense playing well at the end of the season.

He just was playing against worse offenses, not that his defense was playing well. Here's the Bengals' opponents after they got obliterated by the Ravens in Week 10.

Week 11: 24th scoring offense
Week 12: 27th scoring offense
Week 13: 31st scoring offense
Week 14: 22nd scoring offense
Week 15: 7th scoring offense (they got stomped by the Patriots)
Week 16: 25th scoring offense
Week 17: 22nd scoring offense

Over the last 7 games, the 2nd best offense they faced off against was the Brown's 22nd ranked scoring offense. Seriously.

Don't be taken in by that fools gold.