Austin fired

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(11-12-2018, 10:31 PM)pally Wrote: more info behind firing....

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/11/12/nfl-news-notes-rumors-ronald-darby-sidney-jones-cooper-kupp-josh-reynolds-teryl-austin?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=themmqb&utm_source=twitter.com


By ALBERT BREER 
November 12, 2018

News, notes and rumors less than 18 hours removed from the 10th Sunday of the 2018 NFL season …
1. Bengals coach Marvin Lewis did what was necessary on Monday in firing defensive coordinator Teryl Austin, a move that those on staff saw as the obvious next step to stop the bleeding on that side of the ball. Cincinnati has allowed 500-plus yards the last three weeks in a row, something that has never happened before. Beyond that, those in the building saw Austin as a guy who put too much volume in too quickly and was too reactionary on a week-to-week basis, which kept the unit from developing an identity.
By the end, Austin wasn’t getting through to the players and finger-pointing had commenced. Asked to describe the situation, one staffer called it a “disaster.” And it’s not that Austin wasn’t a good guy—he was actually well-liked—but this was just a bad match from a football standpoint from the start. So now after a decade of entrusting his defenses to Mike Zimmer and then Paul Guenther, Lewis steps back into coordinator role.

AKA Austin tried to change too much too fast and it caused issues. That can happen when you bring in someone with a completely different philosophy to what the team is used to. I kind of felt he was so much different than what the Bengals had instilled in the past that it would have taken him at least 2-3 years to start seeing good production and get in players that better fit his style, but I also thought this team's window didn't really have that long to wait. Austin would have made more sense in a true rebuild where it was accepted that the team would be developing for a few years prior to being a contender again.