Statement from Mike Brown (Zac is back)

[MileHighGrowler]

(01-04-2021, 01:16 PM)wildcatnku24 Wrote: That's my point, though.  We should seek some continuity.  Now, I think Taylor has an extremely short leash at this point, but someone was even posting twitter reactions from players and it seems to me that if the players believe in ZT, that should tell us what we really need to know.  Getting players to continue to believe in you while having a sh1tty record has to mean something.  Do I choose to believe it? yes.  But most folks here choose to believe all kinds of stuff about MB that certainly can't be true.  

I think one of the most positive attributes of ZT is that he has his folks believing in what he's doing.  Belief alone obviously won't do it, but you add talent to that and it can get interesting.  Bottom line, I'm excited as heck for this offseason to see what we do.  if we can fix our OL and add Chase from LSU, watch out.  

You can hold the optimism for you and me both then.  In my mind, the Bengals are stupid after these two years and what Zac has shown to keep him.  I don't care if the players "support" him, I don't care that he's confident in his own abilities (which have pretty much sucked every stop along the way).  I don't see Zac as a leader, I don't see Zac as having vision or a real plan, I don't see Zac as someone who holds himself accountable at all, I don't see Zac as someone who holds his assistant coaches and coordinators accountable, I don't see Zac ever turning this around.  

I do see the Bengals making some moves in FA again, drafting a couple of guys we're all excited about, and everyone talking during TC next year about how "this year is going to be different."  We're good at that.  And as consistent at the Bengals are in disappointing this fan base, the fan base is equally consistent every year at being excited that little to no change is going to result in dramatically better results.