Is there a plan, after all ?

[BengalChris]

(10-30-2019, 09:19 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: https://bengalswire.usatoday.com/2019/10/30/bengals-trade-deadline-fans-complicated/

"But maybe that’s what Taylor has done here — implemented a plan. By all outward-facing measures, the front office has bent over backward to grant his every request, even taking the hit with the Jim Turner hire. Now Dalton is a clipboard holder on the sidelines.

So maybe, just maybe, a coherent vision has now been established. Frustration at the lack of moves because it matches the tired, established pattern is fair — but making a change at head coach, then shoving aside Dalton is a dramatic swerve from the usual".

Have they really ?

Was giving Dalton a shot then moving on to Finley been the plan all along ? Keeping Dolegala when we could obviously use another Olineman or LBer sorta hints at that ?

But why did they not trade Dalton ? Were they trying and just didn't get any offers they deemed good enough ?

Perhaps there is more going on here than it seems on the surface ?

Well, if they were trying to trade someone they sure did hide it behind all the "we aren't trading anyone" comments.

If there is a plan, it's a plan that led to an 0-8 record and a bunch of regressing veterans.

It's time for a change at HC. I've already seen enough to know that this doesn't have a good ending. And I don't see any reason to wait until the end of next season or the season after to pull the trigger. It's hard to do it now though because there's no one on the coaching staff to take the HC spot on an interim basis until the end of this season.