Was this a bad year to replace Marv?

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(01-08-2019, 02:43 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Obviously we all (most?) wanted him gone, but from what I've read (and I kinda felt this way already) this is a pretty weak crop of candidates, with a ton of openings (8). In years past, there's always been 2-3 hot candidates with sparkling resumes, with fewer openings. Guys like Pederson, Nagy, Reich, McVay etc.

Now it seems each of the current candidates has serious questions.

Bieniemy - Pretty green. 1 year as OC and didn't call plays.
Monken - His offense produced a lot of yards, but also a lot of turnovers. Wasn't as impressive in previous years.
Taylor - No coordinator experience
Waldron - See Taylor
McDaniels - failed miserably as a HC already, yet he's very choosy (thankfully)
Joseph - Failed miserably in Denver
Arians - Good coach, but only interested in coaching 1 team

I guess we can hope that the Bengals are waiting on a guy that's still coaching. So who is your favorite candidate that is still coaching? Do you think we're in a tough year to fill the spot?

Now that Arians has his health under control, I would love that guy.  I think he would also like to stick it to the steelers.  

He doesn't have to be the coordinator, but the guy in charge that gets his guys ready to play and commands their best effort.  I understand him wanting to coach in Tampa because of the offensive weapons, but line their offense up next to ours.  And we don't have the QB issues, either. 

I would make a serious run at him.

I wanted Bienemy (maybe because he had one of the best Berman nicknames ever:  "Eric, sleeping with Bienemy", but his rap sheet isn't what I want as HC and his lack of experience makes me nervous as well.