Zac just isn't learning

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(11-05-2022, 12:24 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Well here's how you tell he's a good coach. For the last decade, this place has been full of whining about "No playoff wins for 30 years" and "All I want to see is a playoff win." We have heard over and over how making the playoffs 5 years in a row meant nothing, regular season means nothing... it's all about the playoffs. Well, ZT is 1-0 in Wild Card playoff games. He's 1-0 in Divisional round playoff games. He's 1-0 in AFC Championship games. And he took us to the last seco ds of a Super Bowl in his 1st trip. Now all of a sudden we are 4-4 and people want him canned. Some people just can't be happy if they don't get what they want exactly when they want it. And don't give me any of the "Burrow is carrying him" crap, we had a shiming star out of USC named Palmer who was all that and a bag of chips coming out of college, and had Chad and TJ to throw to, and Marvin did squat with them. It took Dalton coming in to get us back into the playoffs on a regular basis. The complainers will always move the bar so they can continue to complain.

This is an outstanding analysis. Zac Taylor IS a good coach, Andy Dalton was better than Carson Palmer, and Marvin Lewis deserves respect for pulling the Bengals out of the basement.

Will Zac get better? Will he understand he needs a run game to win in the AFC North? Will he rediscover the occasional need to play smashmouth football? The answer to all these questions is yes.