05-10-2019, 01:49 PM
(05-06-2019, 11:44 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I felt that the Bengals usually had pretty good kick off and punt coverage teams under Marvin. I can't find team numbers for return averages, but in his 16 year tenure the Bengals only allowed 11 P/KO return tds. That is tenth in the league, but we are tied with 5 other teams, so basically around league average (12.6)
However the Bengals were dead last in the league with just 5 combined tds (2 KO, 3 P) during Marvin's tenure.
The kickoff return is slowly getting phased out, bit the Bengals need to concentrate on getting more production from punt returns.
We have had some elite return men (Peter Warrick, Deltha O'Neal, Adam Jones) but they still did not rack up a lot of tds.
I think your thread has a lot more to do with Darrin Simmons than Marvin Fred...