So the big elephant in the room....

[Daddy-O]

(09-12-2017, 11:35 PM)impactplaya Wrote: It's quite evident Andy Dalton and Ken Zampese just are not a good combination.
I can't exactly pin point in terms of all the intracies and schematics of the offense I will leave that to the smarter posters but my eyes tell me this not a good marriage
What got me thinking was Hue Jackson vs the Steelers last week.
DeShon Kizer 1st NFL start. Very average WR/TE core.
Yet they score 18 points vs a defense that the Bengals struggle with.
Yet I look at the Bengals output Sunday
0 pts
Red zone issues last year red zone issues game 1.
Hmmm common thread....Ken Zampese.
When Hue was OC here Dalton was automatic in the red zone
Awesome TD to Int ratio.
Sunday Dalton throws a pass he would not throw 2 years ago.
I could go on and on .but I will let the smarter posters help full in my thoughts

Yeah Zampese is a nice guy but is hanging on the family name, which worked 25 years ago but not in today's NFL.

All it took for me was watching the Saints / Vikings game the other night to see what an offense should/could look like.  Granted the Saints lost the game on the road to a very good Vikings team, but it was very evident that there is a giant distance between how they approach offense and the Bengals.  

Sadly, the Bengals are just wasting unbelievable talent with their current approach.

Zampese is obviously in over his head but he is not the only one to blame.  It starts at the top, beginning with Mike and Marvin's approach to succession - seemingly always within.  As John Madden used to say "a coach only has at best 10 years because they run out of ideas".  Not to mention the message gets stale.  Only in Bengaldome could Marvin hang around this long.  Good for him I guess...