Florio: 'Bengals care about money, not championships'

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(02-26-2021, 02:59 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: People who reference the salary cap when defending the bengals for spending money and caring about winning forget that having a low team salary isn’t the only way to make a profit.

Low coach salary, small scouting department, no practice dome.

All of that is included with being cheap and turning a profit.

The Steelers and ravens always keep their coordinators. Why? They give them the money. They don’t let a guy like Zimmer leave

There are a couple reasons (I think anyway).
1) Those teams typically went deep in the postseason whereas the Bengals lost in the first week of playoffs or didn't make it at all. As such, teams weren't able to interview those coordinators and finalize hiring until after their teams were eliminated.
2) Their coordinators may not have had a big interest to move into a HC position. Zimmer, Gruden, and Jackson clearly wanted the opportunity, and that's why they left.

It might be better to get coordinators who were former HCs that floundered out from that role but are still good coordinators.