04-22-2024, 08:23 PM
(04-22-2024, 06:44 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Bringing him up didn't have the intended effect, then. He never coached again in the NFL after that year. That's 31 other owners who agreed they didn't want him as their HC, and 31 other HCs who didn't want him on their staff.
He had Drew Brees AND Philip Rivers along with HoF weapons like Antonio Gates and LaDainian Tomlinson and couldn't even win 1 playoff game in 5 years. That's two different HoF QBs and top-8 all-time TE and RB. So yeah, my thought about Schottenheimer and his chance to win a SB if he got a couple more years in SD are pretty definitive.
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I'd like to think that Burrow if he can stay healthy is a top-3 QB in the NFL right now (Mahomes, Rodgers with the same if healthy caveat, Burrow). Also one of them has a $105.25m dead cap in 2025 and the other doesn't. Not boxed in at all, it's not really even a question. If you make a shakeup, it's the guy who is both HC and defacto OC.
Never claimed that Schottenheimer would have won a Super Bowl if given more chances but was showing how there are likely many Coaches
throughout History that may have lost chances to Coach beyond 5 years with the same QB due to Ownership impatience.
I would think that the odds of Schottenheimer winning a Super Bowl with Rivers would have been small but he did show a 14 & 2 aptitude
and I am seeing that he currently ranks 9th All Time in Career wins.
It looks like the Bengals have around a 7% chance of winning the next Super Bowl per Vegas odds.
Based on your beliefs;
Shouldn't you encourage the Bengals to begin a preliminary (behind the scenes) Head Coaching search now for the 2025 season ?
After all, the Bengals may get to a Super Bowl & lose leaving very little time to get a New Head Coach in before the 2025 Draft & Season.
Why would you say "If" regarding a shakeup ? Wouldn't you Demand a shakeup since year 6 & beyond is cursed ?
If the 2024 Season ends without a Super Bowl win then I expect to see some Threads from you demanding Zac be Fired & enlightening
the Bengals as to your reasons why he has to be Fired heading into year 6 with Burrow.
