Troy Walters

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(01-09-2025, 06:29 PM)jj22 Wrote: He hasn't developed any of the UDFA or practice squad players either. Which some of the coaches dismissed / been criticized around here at least have. We have had receivers outside of Chase, Tee and Yoshi on the roster believe it or not. 

Look I get he "developed" Chase from Great to Greater. Tee from good to gooder.

Hobby got career years out of Trey, Hill, Reader, etc but that didn't stop the board from calling for his head.

Bettcher got career years out of Pratt and Wilson. Developed UDFA's. That didn't stop him from getting fired.

I'm not arguing these coaches shouldn't have been let go. I'm arguing Walters gets a bye around here and maybe we should be more critical. How quick we forget the whining around here when Tee is injured and no one can step up outside of Chase. Now me saying something shouldn't cause everyone to have amnesia. I get people hate to hear things from me, but blatant amnesia.... That's doing to much to avoid reality. 

Reality is we are in this position (needing to re-sign Tee) because we have no other choice. And we can blame Tobin for the lack of talent, but that didn't save the other coaches the criticism around here. 

Well for Hobby's sake, outside of Hendrickson's 17.5, the rest of the DL (9 guys) only got 17 sacks.
And the Bengals spent $49.9 mill on the DL position, which was 3rd highest in the league.
And they invested 1st rounder, and 2nd rounder, and three 3rd rounders in addition to those costly veterans.

When you spend that much toward a position, you expect better than 36 sacks, which was 25th in the league.

For Anarumo, the defense has steadily declined in Points Allowed since 2022.
2022 - 6th in Points Allowed
2023 (no Bates) - 21st in Points Allowed
2024 (no Reader, Awuzie) -  25th in Points Allowed

Steady decline because you can't get your replacements to at least keep around middle of the pack indicates it may be time to go.

Walters, OTOH, has the WRs being as productive as they have been in quite some time.
2022 - 3168 yards among the WRs
2023 - 3037 yards among the WRs
2024 - 3234 yards among the WRs

I somewhat agree that he hasn't really developed anyone outside of maybe Iosivas, but he may not have been let go because we're not seeing declined performance for the unit like we saw with the DL for Hobby and the defense as a whole for Anarumo.

I'm not sure why the LB coach was let go other than perhaps the missed tackles?