If You Want REAL Change...

[masterpanthera_t]

I don't believe that Andy is anywhere close to the problem here. I'm not ready to anoint him near the elite QBs of the league, but do believe he is fully capable of winning in the playoffs (I believe he's over his nerves in playoff games now, although we don't have proof of it until we make it to the playoffs). Once the first playoff win comes (and it probably has to come against a really weak team), the Bengals will have the confidence to go further in the future. This is where that loss to the Chargers in 2013, really was a huge missed opportunity. But back to the OP. The main reason why the Bengals don't win in the playoffs or against certain opponents, is that they don't seem to have the innovation to take aggressive moves in free agency/coaching hires by the front office or on the field by the current coaching staff. The same thing that would require pulling off the kind of moves that the OP is suggesting is what's missing in the first place. If they had this type of aggression, and the flexibility to try something completely different when their plan A is not working, we probably wouldn't be in the position to need the kind of moves that the OP is talking about, and the Bengals would be in a better position than where we find them.