Coach Anarumo

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(06-17-2019, 12:42 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I believe we were citing the 2005 offense being top-tier and the defense having an unimpressive rank, but being inordinately good at snagging the ball and creating turnovers as the reason for optimism.  My cynical take is that it is entirely possible one of our new coaches is going to be the reason the season was a "waste" like Zampese and Austin were.  We have so many in over their heads coaches that it's going to take a lot of luck that I don't think the Bengals have for them to succeed right away.

But this just comes down to the excuses we make when things go wrong and how we've had 3 wasted seasons in a row.  Let's see....

2015 - Dalton injured
2016 - Zampese is crap
2017 - Zampese is crap
2018- Lazor is crap, Austin is crap, Marvin is crap
Dishonorable Mention:  1992 - 2018 - Our HC's are all crap

I just can't help but feel like betting our team is healthy and all of our coaches aren't crap is like going to Vegas and putting it all on 00 green.  

Zampese was crap, and it appears Austin was below average.  Lazor came in and immediately improved the offense.....he was an average OC to me.  He had a solid plan A, but plan B wasn't very good, and injuries may have hampered that.  Austin's defense was horrible, and Marvin was able to turn it around at the end of the season with a unit that was playing backups to backups at some positions.  Both of those instances point to poor coaching.  

Some people don't like to hear it, but this is a coach's league.  The game of football is a coach's game.  For a few years, Marvin had some really good assistants.  Three of them became HCs.  Like our beleaguered OL, they weren't replaced with adequate talent.  KZ should have never been an OC. Never.  Austin is a decent to good defensive assistant, but a below average DC. It is what it is.

The hope moving forward is that these assistants are good, and that the coordinators were good enough to warrant a promotion.  Marvin's message had grown stale, and he really lost the team after the WC meltdown, IMO.  Zac is bringing a new message and schemes, and we'll soon see if they can get the job done.  

One thing's for certain, it's not the same ol, same ol, and that defense does not have 32nd in the league talent on it.  Perhaps they are no better than 20th, but they're not 32nd bad.