09-13-2021, 11:02 PM
(09-13-2021, 09:54 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: I honestly feel Zac walked into a pretty poorly assembled roster when he got here. I think there have also been moves made to purposefully tank at moments throughout his tenure as well (Andy benching, Joe Mixon sitting last year after being cleared, etc.)
Say what you will about his lackluster coaching, but he has assembled a good maybe even great core group of players here through the draft and free agency. He does well there IMO. He put himself behind the 8-ball with the 6-26 record, but all will be cleansed with a winning season this year. I hope he does it, I like him for the most part and I think he doesn’t get enough credit for how he’s acquired his roster.
That said, he can make massive improvements in certain areas of his coaching. Decisions line yesterday’s 4th down call are unforgivable and he needs to cut that crap out ASAP without losing that aggressive edge.
IDK I feel like stars align for the guy this year… maybe luck, maybe as planned. I just hope the Bengals have struck gold by pure chance.
I really like the roster we have right now. I'm a little worried we're trying to go all in this year as it seems alot of the free agents are on 1 year deals. Also concerned about the oline and we need to clean up some of the miscues we had pass protecting also worried about Hopkins and hope we made the right decision relying on him so soon after injury.
I also hated that 4th and 1 call and disliked hearing Taylor told Bates after the failed attempt and ensuing touchdown that "we are gonna have to play like that this year". I hope he realizes that was a stupid call and really should've cost us a game that our team clearly outplayed the opponent.
