10-18-2022, 10:45 PM
Swap Zac for Marvin in that first playoff game against the Raiders, and I wonder how the Bengals would have lost. I don't remember what happened with the timeouts, but Marvin would almost certainly waste them on frivolous first quarter nonsense. Joe Burrow would still do everything he could to drag the team forward, and maybe it'd be enough. That would be the ultimate contrast of a Big Game Player and a Small Game Coach. I want to say there'd be some classic disaster moment that ruins everything. Maybe there's a significant late-game penalty, and the cracks in the locker room culture boil over as the team implodes (not necessarily 2015-16 style, just a more general collapse from a team that cannot overcome adversity).
