Coaching props and rants!

[HarleyDog]

(03-31-2021, 07:18 PM)BengalChris Wrote: The dude will need 9 wins this season to have a winning year. That's more than his first two years combined by 50%.

Is it possible for him to have a winning season? Yes

Is it likely? No

Will he have more than the 4 wins of last season? Maybe, but far from certain.

If you aren't winning, then you are losing. He's been losing since he got here.

 

Although your response was skeptical, you prevented from crushing the dream. IMO, we haven't even had the draft yet so it's hard to see where we will go. 2yrs ago, we knew there was no place to go but up. After last year, well, we can get worse and it doesn't look like we've taken an aggressive approach in doing so. We might have improved the OL with Reiff, but we didn't crush it like an organization should do with a QB named Burrow. That leaves me very skeptical on winning next season because they will rely on draft picks going further for OL.

Read an article today where the Bengals scouting department thought the draft was deep in OL. This is my problem. Many draft picks don't transition well. When you have Burrow, you want some proven players. Dude already had surgery because of bad OL and bad coaching. In all honesty, if they couldn't have protected him they should have benched him until they fixed it. Protect your guys. Although, I'll admit, I couldn't wait to watch Burrow develop week to week so I was just as bad as they were.