08-04-2015, 07:36 PM
2012 was a great year of O Line coaching and adjustments. Injuries to the starting guards. Injuries to the starting center. Injury to the back-up center. The team started 3-5 and most teams would not have recovered from most of the O-Line injured....but the Bengals adjusted and adapted and won 7 of the last 8 games, losing only to Dallas in a close one that Romo pulled off a nice 2 minute drill. Bengals went from 3-5 to the play-offs and the win at Pittsburg before Christmas was great.....
We should have a good O Line and a good D Line and I look for the Bengals to be able to block and tackle and man up in the trenches and win in the trenches and for this reason, I think our trenches on both sides get us back to the play-offs.
Still, I think this jazz that a good coach wins with no talent is bull. You draft talent. You need talent. All draft picks need coached up, this ain't college. All draft picks need coached up. The O Line after Munoz and Montoya in the early 90's was horse meat and void of any talent. Klingler and KiJana got their heads taken off as soon as the ball was snapped. The O Line fell apart in 2008 and Carson got his nose broke, his jaw cracked in preseason and his arm ripped off in regular season. Fitz replacing him had to run for his life as soon as the ball was snapped. The Bengals early 90's and the Bengals 2008 were some of the worst O Line's that ever walked on an NFL field........I don't blame the O Line coach....you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shot......you can't make T Bone Steak out of horse crop. ......and don't tell me a good coach should, that also is bull, but this O-Line coach pretty much did in 2012 adjusting to players lost for the season to injuries. Winning 7 of the last 8 was a great O Line adjusting to those injuries.
The good news is, this isn't the early 90's or 2008 and the Bengals are more loaded with talent in the trenches going into 2015. The Bengals should be able to match up with anybody in the trenches, where game are really won.....For all the slide rule stats, I'll just say that you don't go to 4 straight play-offs in the very tough AFC North without somebody doing something right in the trenches the last 4 years, on both sides of the ball.
We should have a good O Line and a good D Line and I look for the Bengals to be able to block and tackle and man up in the trenches and win in the trenches and for this reason, I think our trenches on both sides get us back to the play-offs.
Still, I think this jazz that a good coach wins with no talent is bull. You draft talent. You need talent. All draft picks need coached up, this ain't college. All draft picks need coached up. The O Line after Munoz and Montoya in the early 90's was horse meat and void of any talent. Klingler and KiJana got their heads taken off as soon as the ball was snapped. The O Line fell apart in 2008 and Carson got his nose broke, his jaw cracked in preseason and his arm ripped off in regular season. Fitz replacing him had to run for his life as soon as the ball was snapped. The Bengals early 90's and the Bengals 2008 were some of the worst O Line's that ever walked on an NFL field........I don't blame the O Line coach....you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shot......you can't make T Bone Steak out of horse crop. ......and don't tell me a good coach should, that also is bull, but this O-Line coach pretty much did in 2012 adjusting to players lost for the season to injuries. Winning 7 of the last 8 was a great O Line adjusting to those injuries.
The good news is, this isn't the early 90's or 2008 and the Bengals are more loaded with talent in the trenches going into 2015. The Bengals should be able to match up with anybody in the trenches, where game are really won.....For all the slide rule stats, I'll just say that you don't go to 4 straight play-offs in the very tough AFC North without somebody doing something right in the trenches the last 4 years, on both sides of the ball.
1968 Bengal Fan
