Potential head coach candidates

[BengalChris]

(11-21-2018, 07:58 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: It's not one excuse or another that I take issue with. It's that you can't reasonably say that 7 teams were good enough to make the playoffs, but not good enough to win a single game. 7 sets of excuses doesn't fly. Especially when the games weren't even close. 

You expect me to believe Chris Henry was the difference between a win and a loss in the Jets game? Chris Henry wasn't even any good in 2009. 12 catches for 236 yards and 2 TD's in 8 games. As for starting Burkhead at receiver, we were also starting Sanu...and the Colts were starting a practice squad RB in Boom Herron. Somehow the Colts were able to get much more out of their 4th string RB (141 yards rushing/receiving + a TD) than we were able to get from anyone...including Jeremy Hill, who had rushed for 1100 yards that year. 

Overall point being that a few injuries didn't break the Colts, so why do we expect a few injuries to break the Bengals?

As to Kenny, he only went 0-2 in the playoffs, not 0-7...and one of those games was a very close 28-31 loss to a Raiders team that won the SB the following year. And when did I ever say it was impossible for Marv to win a playoff game? I would only say it's highly unlikely based on history. Sure, we weren't favored in most of them. The Giants also weren't favored in any of their 4 playoff games on their way to the 2007 championship.

Bingo!

Marv led Bengals teams have consistently been unprepared for what they faced in each of the playoff games. Even against the Steelers, with the game in hand, the team melted down (fumble, followed by two personal fouls) to hand the game over to the Steelers.

There are 7 beautiful examples of them being unprepared for the playoff game. There are 0 examples of a Marv led Bengals playoff game that was well planned and executed.

The pieces you have going into a playoff game are the pieces you have and you game plan accordingly. That's the job of the coaches. Other teams do it.