02-09-2023, 02:11 PM
(02-09-2023, 01:41 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Going even further back, look at the 49ers before Bill Walsh, the Steelers before Chuck Noll. In fact, most Super Bowl winning coaches started with a shit team and turned them around over the course of a few years.
Yep there’s a long list. Funny how it goes hand in hand. If some want to dig into their mantra Zac under achieved his first year then so be it. He was what 35-36?. He got named coach after the Super Bowl and a lot of coaching targets weren’t available. He didn’t have time to get involved much in FA or the draft. He was inexperienced to say the least. He was a young coach with no reputation as being successful and the locker room with mixed emotions. They talk about half the team is in the building on Monday’s their day off. They do film work as position groups w/o their coach. I would bet that wasn’t happening with some of the stars and vets on his first team. Zac’s second year was horribly depleted with injuries and not just Burrow. They were showing signs of life.
There were a lot of doubters of Zac from day one. He was young and woefully inexperienced. Then they went 2-14. Some pundits dug in. It’s silly not to admit he’s done really well.
Romo “ so impressed with Zac ...1 of the best in the NFL… they are just fundamentally sound. Taylor the best winning % in the Playoffs of current coaches. Joe Burrow” Zac is the best head coach in the NFL & that gives me a lot of confidence." Taylor led the Bengals to their first playoff win since 1990, ending the longest active drought in the four major North American sports, en and appeared in Super Bowl LVI, the first since 1988.
