Quick Hits: Bengals Hope To Copy Rams' Super Rebound; Postseason OT Revamped

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(03-31-2022, 07:53 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Fair enough and true, yet I disagree. 

Heck fans were wanting Zac fired at the 3/4 pole of the season even. Agree though that there was a lot of talent on this squad that could only manage 10 wins in a 17 game season while the entire AFCN was horrible.  

Marvin had 3 teams that equaled that regular season win total, and 3 that surpassed it with 11-5, 11-5, 12-4 records while playing one less game even. They were very talented teams too.

But will say that the 2022 team features way more talent than any of Marvin's teams and I personally really liked last years team much better than those of Marvin's as well.  

Yet that is due to Zac's culture change.

That is an absolutely terrible argument, man. W/L isn't a clear way to gauge talent.

Andy Dalton
Benjarvus Green-Ellis
AJ Green
Mohamed Sanu
Tyler Eifert (not 2015 Eifert)
Jermaine Gresham 

or

Joe Burrow
Joe Mixon
Ja'Marr Chase
Tee Higgins
Tyler Boyd
CJ Uzomah

That's not even close. The defense is the same way... they had Brandon Thompson making 7 starts because Atkins missed half the year, 35-year-old James Harrison in a 4-3, Terrence Newman, Domata Peko, Michael Johnson, Rey Maualuga, George Iloka... none of these guys in 2013 would start on the 2021 Bengals.

Honestly on their entire 2013 defense, the only players that would start on the 2021 team would be Vontaze Burfict, Adam Jones, and Reggie Nelson (Atkins would, but he got hurt in the 9th game and then Brandon Thompson started the rest of the year). 

Zimmer was just simply a better DC than Lou is, not that he had better players.

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It is not due to Zac's "culture change" unless culture change is a code word for sucking your way into back-to-back top-5 picks that turn into Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase, and then spending good money to sign good players in FA for the first time in franchise history. If that is the case, then agreed. Lol