SI Report - Bengals planning "major shake up" to Taylor's staff

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(01-01-2021, 11:48 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Zac not being able to bring in better coaches was on him. The team would have hired Del Rio had he been interested in working for Taylor. I don’t believe for s second it was a matter of lowballing him. Del Rio (and several others) wisely saw that ZT wasn’t ready to be a HC.

Marvin was able to bring those coaches because he was actually respected around the league.

Marvin was able to "bring in" a guy with no real NFL coaching experience in Jay Gruden?  He was an offensive assistant under his brother at Tampa Bay and he was so sought after when his brother left Tampa that he became an Arena league OC, and the next year, their HC.   

Zimmer was hired away from a volatile Cowboys DC job to be the DC (lateral move) for Petrino at the Falcons, who promptly quit after 13 games to go coach Arkansas.  The Bengals offered him the DC position the following season.  It wasn't like he was some hot NFL commodity, either.  

The Bengals struck gold with both those coordinators, even though Gruden had very little NFL experience and Zimmer was coming off a job where the ownership didn't ask him back.  That had nothing to do with Marvin's respect level.