10-19-2024, 06:09 PM
(10-19-2024, 03:00 PM)kevin Wrote: That's not all that bad considering how awful last years of Coach Lewis were. I mean, all the coaches fired except Lewis and then the last year so awful that Lewis and more coaches fired. Coach Lewis left the cupboard bare, Taylor walked into a complete rebuild. It took a couple years, but Taylor did eliminate big money contracts and Marvin #1 Draft Picks that just weren't panning out. It's a long list of Marvin #1 picks that had to be shown the door, before this team could use that money to rebuild. Joe Burrow by himself wasn't enough, he isn't Superman, you have to build a team around him.
In all fairness to Coach Lewis, the Bengals cupboard was mighty bare when he came in and started turning things around in a rebuild. Same when Coach Taylor came in. Both time Bengals were at Rock Bottom needing a complete rebuild and that takes years. As Paul Brown said in 1968, don't expect much the first few years, it takes years and a few drafts to build a team. I was there in 1968, and the team Lewis took over and the team Taylor took over needed as much rebuild as what Paul Brown had in 1968.
Anyway, GO BENGALS....3-4 and 1-1 in AFC North starts getting this train back on the tracks.
A lot of words to say one has Joe Burrow and the other did not.
