01-09-2020, 11:13 PM
(01-09-2020, 11:16 AM)higgy100 Wrote: Have no issue here...Hopefully, better players come in, and you get AJ back to become the deep threat again which creates open parts of the field consistently. Thought I read the Bengals lost 7 games by 6 points or less and a couple of those were with the QB change and at least a couple more were with bad moves made by ZT who was learning to be a HC....You're never as good or as bad as you are in the NFL..A handful of plays/turnovers, penalties, at most, determine games.
If this team gave up and was not playing hard then I agree....
1. I never rely on better players coming in, because we rely solely on the draft to fix everything.
2. AJ being healthy and playing at a high level is a huge if.
3. Almost all losing teams can make a similar claim. Most losses in the NFL are close.
4. Wasn't it Parcells who said "you are what your record says you are"?
I get wanting to keep things the same when you're winning. We did that quite a bit. Now we keep things the same while we're losing too, and invent reasons why. It seems Mike just doesn't like to change coaches, period, because the Browns did his father dirty 50 years ago.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
