4 hours ago
(Yesterday, 04:18 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: There was no reason to fire Lou.. the personnel sucked and he got them to play well to finish with a winning record...
it was cowardice for Zac to fire Lou. The offense lost as many chances as the defense to score/win, even Burrow has highlighted this.
I like Zac overall, but firing Lou with the personnel Lou havd, to accommodate the offense, is just unjust and weak. If anything Zac failed miserably running the offense and failed to win more games where the real $$$ is invested. Lou the scapegoat. Lou even came to Cinci when nobody wanted to.. very disgraceful to let him go. Good luck next season with same or worse personnel and a new system.. YIKES!
PS. The only reason we went to the SB was because of the defense and Lou, with talented personnel.
I agree with this take. In a season where 1 more win gets us into the playoffs the defense did enough to win and the offense failed more than a few times. The only reason i see moving on from Lou is he seems to really struggle to change his scheme to match his personnel. We waited way too long to simplify his scheme with the defensive struggles this year. The defense was horrendous for the first half + of the season and the quick firing makes me wonder if they hadn't just made they're mind up and not taking the end of the season into account. Although it was against lesser competition.
