Can we Duplicate 2011 Season

[Essex Johnson]

(09-09-2020, 05:11 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Gruden had at least some success at other levels being in charge of an offense.

Whatever you think of the UFL, Gruden was an OC there and his team went 6-0 and was by far the best scoring offense in the UFL.

Zac Taylor was the interim OC for the Dolphins after Bill Lazor got fired and the offense in that 5 game span actually got *WORSE*.
Zac Taylor was then the OC for the Cincinnati Bearcats in college and they had the 123rd out of 128 offenses. (Seriously)
Zac Taylor then got hired to be the HC/OC for the Bengals after Bill Lazor got fired and the offense was 26th overall/30th scoring.

So 100% I would take 2011 Gruden who hadn't proven anything at the NFL level, but had some success at lower levels under his belt rather than 2020 Zac Taylor who's proven 3 different times at both the NFL and College level that he can't be the head of a successful offense. He also only became the QB coach for the Rams AFTER Goff had already posted a season with a QB Rating >100. So we can't even say he is the reason for Goff.

MAYBE a wash if we were comparing 2019 Taylor vs 2011 Gruden, but we saw 2019 Taylor, and now 2020 Taylor has lost a whole lot of shine.

Again neither Gruden had never called OC in NFL.. so we really did not know what we were getting coming in.. Taylor has a year under his belt and second year of system so to me no big difference between them coming into Gruden first season or Taylors second and Taylor has a better offense to work with than Gruden did in 2011.. I agree Zimmer had a clear advantage on Defense but man we never saw a off season like this one with FA on Defense.. and the heavy draft of LBs.. feel much better about our defense and this might be the best Dline we have had in a while