04-27-2020, 07:03 PM
(04-27-2020, 06:07 PM)J24 Wrote: It's too early to judge the 2019 draft.
1.) Williams got hurt
2.)Sample got hurt- plus he actually fits what Zack wants in a TE.
3.) Pratt was actually a good player in the second half of last season
4.) Finley was bad but it's a bit of miss league at QB, Jordans and Wren were projects and neither were expected to play.
5.) No pick
6th.) Didn't make the roster
7th.) Anderson again got hurt but looked good in preseason.
As for Taylor deserving a break for last season I think it's a yes and no answer.
1.) He was Dukes Guy and he knew he was the Head coach by mid January. The he didn't have enough time to prepare is nonsense.
2.) He had bad breaks with injury losing his top 3 lineman + star WR hurts. Again that's going to affect a team no matter how you slice it.
3.) I thought the Bengals drafted a lot of guys that fit what Zac wanted in a player. Unfortunately the top 2 picks got hurt & they should of played Pratt earlier.
4.) I'm going to get heat for saying this but they were quite frankly un lucky in a couple of games last season. Seattle we outplayed them, Buffalo BS holding call cost us a TD which changes the game, Jags Game Webb drops two pick sixes, Raiders + Steelers we win if Andy plays, and the @ Browns game again we out played them.
5.) The team was playing hard + doing good things to finish the season. Mixon and the running game got going + the defense finished out well. I thought the Coaching staff kept the moral of the team strong when they were playing for nothing.
Zac had brutal bad luck in losing Williams, Boling, and Green before trainingcamp even started. In 2018 Andre Smith was worse than Bobby Hart, yet opening day 2019 he was our starting LT. Our offense never had a chance due to lack of talent but poor coaching made it worse (see: run game first 8 games)
Our defense seemed to have more talent, but they just played really bad and underachieved. Guys that I have seen play well in the past looked like crap.
It is too early to really judge our draft from last year, but for some reason (I still don't know who to blame) our free agent signings last year were bad even by Bengal standards (and that is saying a lot).
This year looks A LOT better so far, but I am still concerned about the coaching.
