Punching Bags and their Replacements

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(05-03-2021, 09:45 AM)Bengalitis Wrote: Zac & Lou.  What a great sounding comedic duo name.

The Bengals will not be competitive until these two are gone.

You looking forward to another season of Zac calling out the offensive plays... play after play? yeah? Did you enjoy Marvin's last year calling out the defensive plays... play after play? yeah?

The reality is the HC needs to be assessing both sides of the team (in real time during the game) while his subordinates the OC and DC do what the HC has been planning for the entire week (gameplan). Zac is no coaching genius and his agonizing attempt to play call the offense is just hideous to watch with hideous results.  Zac should let the OC do the play calling and change or steer it to whatever direction he sees fit to improve the game during the game (this causes Zac to call plays of what he wants to do, not what he should do). Even with the best talent in the team, if the coaching is not there, the players will get frustrated and the winning collapses. Ask the browns when Kitchens has coaching there for a season with all the talent in their team.

While I don't see ZT as a Belichek, it is pretty harsh to refer to him as a Kitchens.  To be fair, he inherited a turd and has tried to improve the roster.  I am hoping the big change in focus is a greater emphasis on the running game.  They need to have more balance.  The defense?  I won't judge them as harshly other than to say their drop off in talent when they lost injured front line starters was dramatic.