Bengals fire Lou Anarumo, Frank Pollack, James Bettcher and Marion Hobby

[Brownshoe]

(01-06-2025, 05:05 PM)Wyche Wrote: Have you followed this team very long? LoL. They haven't hit on ANY lineman since Sam Hubbard.....that includes offensive linemen. I got news for ya pal, these personnel issues go back to the Marvin Lewis regime. Hint.....it ain't the coaches now, and it wasn't then....and I blamed Marvin for a lot of it. 

That's not how things work.....some coaches are managers of the team, others have a focus on one side of the ball or the other. The manager types let the coordinators run their units. Guys like Reid run the offense and stay out of the way of the defense. Guys like Belichick let OC run the offense and they run the defense. You act like that's something that has never happened in the league and isn't actually rather common. 

Now, starting slow, and some other critiques are one thing, but just making up stuff is another. The Bengals have been poor at evaluating talent for 40 ***** years, but let's blame Zac.

Wyche, if you don't remember I've been posting on these message boards for over 15 years (crazy to think that this site is almost 10 years old and I was posting on the mothership for a while). I know that our drafting has been pretty awful. Tobin is only around still (IMO) because he's not demanding to be a GM so Brown can keep that title as well as owner. We both should know that because our scouting department is so much smaller than everyone else that we use our coaches as scouts and evaluators as well. Yes, bad drafts fall on Tobin just as much as Zac. If I had to guess whoever the HC is has more of a say in who we draft as well. 

Yes, coaches have specialties but they're still the head coach. They still are in charge of both offense and defense. They're still in charge of shaping both sides of the field. As a "offensive" coach Zac probably goes along with mostly whatever the DC says, but it still falls on him to fix something if the DC isn't doing a good job. It's not good if a HC is oblivious on everything but offense.