01-18-2022, 10:58 PM
(12-18-2021, 01:10 AM)BengalChris Wrote: First off, the Bengals were not on life support under Marvin. In 2018 they had a winning record until losing AJ and Dalton to season ending injuries. Who exactly was going to win with Driskel I ask?
Taylor turned it into a 2 win team and the worst record in the NFL and followed that up with a 4 win season.
Mike Brown has opened up the check book like never before, but Taylor is not winning like never before, and he's laid some serious eggs on the field.
Taylor has won a few games, but no where near as many as he should be given the talent the front office has provided him with. Taylor and the coaches do help with the draft, but it is the front office that does the selections.
Taylor has also lost a lot of games to bad teams, which is a marked sign of a bad team itself. Sure a bad team can get lucky sometimes, but to lose to bad teams so often is a fatal flaw. My God, losing to the Jets, losing to the Bears [and to Andy Dalton two years in a row].
The coaches are way underachieving with the talent this team has.
Taylor needs to win A LOT more and he needs the playoffs to keep his job.
I really hate not living in the moment and comparing this coach to that coach. There are many things in the Bengals organization that would not have been possible without Marvin Lewis. He definitely blazed a trail for ZT and should get credit for that. Marvin message was good at first and he had a few good years with Palmer/Chad and again with Dalton/AJ. The culture the last 3 years was a losing culture. I know that because they had a losing record and they were spiraling out of control. They also had the National Media calling our teams thugs which at the time I did not want to believe. I look at the class of the players on this team and I am proud of every one of them. Class from top to bottom. I am not sure who all gets credit for that but ZT has to be in the mix. Let's focus on enjoying what we have and not diminish it by comparing this team to past years. Who Dey!
