Zac Taylor Changed the Culture of Cincinnati Football

[BengalChris]

(12-18-2021, 04:13 AM)Wyche Wrote: Dude, we know you hate Zac, but you can't be serious. Marv had 3 straight losing seasons, the team was aging, the coaching staff was trash....so bad that Marvin had to take over DC. You forget the Ken Zampese fiasco? Fans quit showing up to games....this organization had one foot in the grave, and one on a nanner peel during 16, 17, and 18. For all intents and purposes, Marvin's career ended that January night in 2016. We opened the 2016 campaign allowing Andy Dalton to be sacked 7 times at NYJ. I think people forget how bad the team was....yet would win 6 games and screw up the draft. I mean we STARTED Ced Ole'! There was the horrible loss in Minnesota after the rumors Marvin was leaving...players quit that day. He didn't leave. The media was chastising ownership for keeping him around, it was becoming a total shit show!

2019 was roster evaluation with a new system, and that put most of Marvin's players outside of their comfort zone. Lewis constructed his roster differently (see slow, thumping LBs as exhibit A), and had different schemes.

Marvin was the better coach so far, no question, but I'm not gonna sugarcoat his last three seasons, they were trash.

I'm not saying it wasn't time for Marvin to go, I certainly thought it was and wrote about it several times. I do not believe any coach could have pulled that season out the way things were set up.

But Taylor hasn't been the answer either. Where would this team be right now if they had a decent staff?

With the exception of the OL I believe the front office has done more than I can ever remember them doing to get talent on the field. Yet it's as if the coaches have to learn everything first hand and there's no one there to teach them.

Possibly I should be more irritated with the front office for signing the cheapest coach they could find rather than spending more of that money for someone who had actual won before, at any level.

For the record, I don't hate Taylor, but whoever the coach is they need to be doing a better job of it. The team had a cake walk schedule to start the season, now they are 2-4 in their last 6 games. Things are trending in the wrong direction.

Possibly the team will make the playoffs and I'll need to accept that Taylor will be around for longer.