Do you think Ross gets a 2nd life?

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(02-07-2018, 06:31 PM)fredtoast Wrote: First of all the Bengals coaches are working with the handicap of owner Mike Brown who refuses to address major problems in free agency.  Yet despite this only FIVE teams have won more games than the Bengals over the last 8 years.

The Bengals coaches are far from perfect, but despite having to work with a major handicap they have outperformed an overwhelming majority of the other teams in the league.

Completely disagree.  The owner "handicapped" this coaching staff by putting together one of the best rosters in the NFL for some time.  I believe it was the coaching staff that horribly underachieved, especially after the likes of Zimmer, Hue, and Gruden moved on.  Those coaches parlayed the talent here in to head coaching gigs in the NFL.  Say what you will about Mike Brown and Free Agency, but the talent he helped to assemble (I keep telling you guys it is more Katie, Troy, and Marvin, but I digress) was good enough to help fill three head coaching positions (Denver, Minnesota, and Washington DC) outside of Cincinnati.  

It would seem the talent that most of those guys inherited was inferior to the talent here, but Zimmer has helped to forge a really good defense in Minnesota and they did win a playoff game this year.  

I think the team was that good, and the most recent coaches (Zampese, Guenther, and of course, Marv) were horribly deficient.  Marv was exposed when he lost the likes of Gruden, Hue, and Zimmer.  He has been a head coach over 15 years, and he STILL can't run a two minute offense.  I have very little to no hope of the near future because I can't see him EVER keeping the foot on the gas if they got up by 21 points against a team like pitt (a la Jacksonville) who ended up needed 42 points to win the game.  I just can't stand his conservative nature and style of play that allows for nickel-and-dime conversions with almost no contested catches while he seems to hang his hat on not giving up any big plays.  

Then there is the way he handles the roster.  Ugh.  Just done with Marv.  He should have been gone a long time ago and we could have had Zimmer, Gruden, or Hue.