Can we Duplicate 2011 Season

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(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.

I've been on the same wavelength as soon as it was clear we were replacing Dalton with an instant-star QB.  I have faith in Burrow, but if things look unreasonably sluggish I hope we pull the plug on the guy and use the magic of Burrow to lure a better HC here.

I realize this is an unprecedented situation where a rookie QB hasn't even had a pre-season snap and he's starting, but if our offense looks relatively bad then ZT's is unimpressive resume isn't going to help his case.


So yes, in both 2011 and 2020 we are coming off disappointing years where we could have canned the HC but instead we are moving on with a new QB.