Bengals Slide

[Hoofhearted]

(11-14-2016, 05:50 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: Well we didn't have Eifert, Hue, Vance Joseph, Nelson, Burfict, Jones, and Sanu this year. We lost a lot and we had to adjust on offense to make everything work the way it was. The defense isn't anywhere close to how good they were last year. If you can't tell we have had a different team this year than what we did last year I don't know what to tell you.

With all due respect, but it sounds like a lot of excuses to me. You have the majority of your core in place (Most important is AD, then Green, Dunlap, Geno, Whit, Jones, etc) and also have that added benefit of "stability" with you head man, you should be able to over-come these things. I can forgive having the most important position on the field out with AD. Or even if Green is out. As good as Eifert is, he's still not as valuable as AD or Green to this team. Burfict hurts, but thought Vinny Rey is a serviceable LB. The coaches are a bit different, as it's usually harder to gauge that. But since it's the D that's the weak link, that doesn't really hold as much weight IMO. Paulie G has been here a long while, and been d-cord for 3 years. The position coaches I would hope would be as good, but that's up to the higher ups to decide on the fit. I hope a 10+ year vet at HC in the NFL would have a handle on.