12-09-2020, 08:58 AM
(12-09-2020, 05:52 AM)Older Than You Too Wrote: Tim Mcgee said it best on Monday. He bet anything on WLW that it wasn't the veterans' motivation, but the coaching that ruined our top three players. AJ, Geno and Dunlap were mismanaged and he posited that they would have had much better seasons under any other competent coaching scheme.
That WLW post game was hilarious. Chick Ludwig called out fat Randy's gut protruding his belt. And Tim laughed his ass off at that description.
It's an age old dilemma: do you scheme around your fading stars who'll be done in a year or two or do you try and build around players that will fit the incoming staff's preferred scheme.
What it highlights is that there seems to be a disconnect between the Bengals Front Office and the Coaching staff. The Front Office wanted them to use Dunlap and Atkins but the Coaches wanted to rebuild in a different direction.
It's now clear that there was no point in holding onto Atkins, Green, Dunlap, Dalton, Eifert etc and they should have been traded away when Marvin left to acquire the draft capital to rebuild with a young, cost-controlled core. It's why - more than the coaching - this rebuild will take longer than the Dolphins'. With further coaching changes inevitable this off-season that just put further delays the Bengals' return to competitiveness.
