05-12-2019, 04:58 PM
(05-12-2019, 04:19 PM)NKURyan Wrote: 1. Did anybody else jump on Del Rio and hire him? No? There's probably a reason for that. 2. When you hire a head coach, you let him put his staff together, you don't tie his hands from the get go by putting him together with people that he evidently doesn't see eye to eye with (ie, Del Rio).
3. Pollack's probably the most overrated person on a Bengals sideline since AJ McCarron. I'm sure he's a good coach, but people talk about him like he's Vince Lombardi. They gave him two new OL starters last year and the results were only slightly better than the year before. I think we'll be just fine without him.
4. As for Callahan, if a guy like Jon Gruden sees enough in him to put him on his staff that holds weight with me. No problems with that hire at all.
5. The vast majority of the fanbase wasn't coming back for anything they did in the offseason, be it coaching hires or free agency signing. Period. The only thing that will get people back on board is winning, and throwing a stupid contract at some player in a market that was mostly out of wack or hiring a coach ZT didn't want wasn't going to change that.
1. Just because a coach sits out a year doesn't make him a bad coach. You talk about Gruden like he's amazing, and he sat out for 10 years.
2. This seems like a cop out. We don't know why Taylor didn't go with Del Rio, but if the reason is "he couldn't work with" a proven coach, while he decided he could work with a clearly mediocre candidate (Anarumo), then I'm at least a little worried about that.
3. Overrated now that he's gone, eh? I don't think Pollack is the 2nd coming or anything, but we did have our best YPC last season since 2000. Our sacks were also greatly reduced until Dalton went down. He seems like a good coach and I think we should leave it at that.
4. I have no problems with the Callahan hire. He's been a part of some good staffs and was interviewed for some OC vacancies last year. That said, the fact that Callahan is also inexperienced made the need for an experienced DC even stronger. That's something the board pretty much universally agreed on beforehand...that we wanted one of the coordinators to be experienced. Only after we hired everyone did no experience suddenly become totally cool (to some).
5. Highly debatable. You and Fred talk like pre-season hype isn't a thing. As if fans don't get excited by off-season moves. If that's the case, why are the Bengals focusing their marketing campaign around a "new dey"? They expect fans to get pumped and buy tickets because we brought in a new coach.
As for "stupid contracts", this is just another case of someone pretending it's Albert Haynesworth type deals or nothing at all. There are plenty of affordable free agents who could've been an upgrade for us.
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