(Yesterday, 12:16 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Lets hope

We need new direction, new hope, new style, not that we've had a style.

(Yesterday, 11:40 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Yeah, contrary to another thread that I created calling for his replacement that I posted while angry and frustrated with the season, I tend to agree with you. A strong defensive mind needs to be brought in to replace Anarumo, preferably someone with past Head Coaching experience... I'm looking at you, Mike Vrabel. That person also needs to have strong input into personnel acquisition during the draft and free agency, as well as the ability to shape his own staff of position coaches.

Something needs to be done about that damn OL as well, and I don't think that it's quite as simple as "replace Pollack". While replacing Frank Pollack may very well be a key facet in fixing what's wrong with the OL and rushing attack, game planning and play calling are equally culpable for putting the OL in a position to fail in short yardage and sustaining blocks in pass pro. In other words, Zac needs to respect the running game as an essential part of an offensive game plan.

(Yesterday, 03:33 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: i have said this for a while, Pollack has really found little success since Dallas days (when he had like four 1/2 rounders starting).  Lou has at least been successful, if it was not for his defense we don;t make the SB, i can;t say anything close to that for Pollack, we have invested in draft picks and Free agents.  The biggest sign Pollack has to go is the FAs are performing worse for us than their previous teams as a whole. It probably is time for Lou to go but it is way overtime for Pollack to go..

(Yesterday, 03:26 PM)J24 Wrote: I don't think Lou is the main problem with the defense,to me It's a roster problem not coaching problem. With that being said a new voice should be had; the question is who. My bet would be Zimmer or Robert Livingston

(Yesterday, 04:20 PM)ERIC1 Wrote: yeah Zimmer is having a great year

(Yesterday, 04:20 PM)ERIC1 Wrote: yeah Zimmer is having a great year

(Today, 12:24 AM)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: Eric Ghiacuc at center? Meh. Good enough!
Nate Livings at guard? Good enough for me!
Russell Bodine at center? Let's make him a staple!

The primary problem transcends coaching. It was the interior OL vs. Chris Jones that really tanked the Super Bowl. Someone at the keel of the ship just refuses to admit that they don't know what they are doing. 

I like ZT, think he's talented, but it looks like his special sauce has been figured out. He's getting his franchise QB hit too much for my liking. Lou has had some great moments, but his cover 3/cover 1 is not working with this batch of players. I'd imagine that this crop has hit its zenith. As time goes on it looks more like it was the Super Bowl season that was an outlier more than the losing seasons under this regime. I'd roll the dice on a blue chip HC. Especially one who could bring their own GM who would install a top down philosophy. 

(Yesterday, 03:26 PM)J24 Wrote: I don't think Lou is the main problem with the defense,to me It's a roster problem not coaching problem. With that being said a new voice should be had; the question is who. My bet would be Zimmer or Robert Livingston

(Yesterday, 04:36 PM)J24 Wrote: When he was with Atlanta(2007) the defense was 29th in both points and Yards. Then he came to Cincinnati and transformed the defense to one of the best units in the league for the next 6 seasons.

(11 hours ago)Sled21 Wrote: So, if it's not a coaching problem, but a roster problem (which I agree with you on)

(11 hours ago)SunsetBengal Wrote: It's both and they go hand in hand. From a roster standpoint, the Bengals have serious deficiencies on both sides of the line. Why is that so, the coaches have been given many draft picks and free agent acquisitions to work with and develop. For a length of time spanning two coaching staffs, failure to develop quality draft picks and get free agents to play up to standard (OL) has been an issue. That is on the coaches. 

It's easy to say that the simple solution is to just replace the 2 position coaches in question, but who has allowed them to continue down this course of failure for so long? Why haven't the coordinators stepped in and demanded better of the position coaches? Why hasn't the HC put his foot up the asses of the coordinators for allowing these failures to continue?

(9 hours ago)Wyche Wrote: Is it though? What are Billy Price, Jake Fisher, Jackson Carman, and Cedric Ogbuehi up to these days?

Mims is looking the part, and Jonah was average. Otherwise, these draft picks on OL are bums. Straight bums. OBJr has played well, Karras has been good, Cappa just seems to have fallen off a cliff. You said it yourself, it's been a problem across multiple staffs. To me, that points SQUARELY to a "GM" problem. I'm not absolving the coaches totally, but you can only make so much chicken salad out of chicken shit.

(11 hours ago)Sled21 Wrote: So, if it's not a coaching problem, but a roster problem (which I agree with you on) then why would you get rid of the coach instead of improving the roster?

(11 hours ago)Sled21 Wrote: I am a huge Mike Zimmer fan, and there was a time I was heartbroken he did not get a HC job here. But looking back at Marvin's teams, Zimmer always fielded a good 1PM defense. He was just like Marvin, in that his defense was never up for a Primetime, Playoff or a "coming off the bye" game. I don't want to go back to teams that shrink under the big lights.

(8 hours ago)J24 Wrote: To get a new voice in the locker room and new perspective at the position. I'm not against Lou coming back but I'm not against a new voice either.
I'm not saying Zimmer should be the guy but Im saying he's probably the most realistic choice to replace Lou if the FO goes that route.

(11 hours ago)SunsetBengal Wrote: Do you mean Aaron Donald? But yeah, Chris Jones gives them fits as well.

(6 hours ago)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: Yup lol.  

There was the 2022 AFCCG that cost them a SB appearance.  I wonder if Chris Jones can be held accountable for that!