"Improvement" vs. "fixing everything"

[BengalChris]

(09-22-2019, 11:28 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I am not as down Zac as some here accuse me.  If you go back to when we hired him you will see.  Most of my concerns are about the staff, especially our DC.  I also feel the front offfice did not do enough to help Zac turn this around.  So I am not going to judge him too harshly this season.

However I do want to address one of the most common arguments I see from his supporters.  They say that there is no way he could "fix everythying" in his first year.  I agree with this, but say that even if he can't fix everything we should at least show some improvement from last year.  

So far we have looked better than I expected in one game and much worse in another.  It is impossible to decide anything based on just two games.  But as the season progresses I want to see some consistent improvement.  

I won't be happy if everything is not fixed this year, but as long as I see some improvement I will have a positive outlook for the future.

If you are fixing things then you could expect that the team would be playing better than last year, except they really aren't. 0-2 versus 2-0, running game has been set back to the stone ages and the defense looked just as bad last week as it did under Austin. Literally, this team made the 49ers look like the Chiefs or the Saints or the Patriots.

So, what has been fixed exactly?

Granted it is too early to tell about ZT. The front office did its usual bargain bin free agent signings, except they paid premium $'s for some reason that has yet to be explained. People have made some guesses about why the team is overpaying, but only the team knows for sure why they did that.

I'm not particularly down on ZT. I am down on Mike Brown. He's been the one constant in 28 years of failure.