06-17-2019, 12:42 PM
(06-17-2019, 12:34 PM)Wyche Wrote: There were some homers, no doubt, but there was also plenty of skepticism due to the ranking in Detroit. I want to say they were somewhere around 26th. He did say he was going to make turnovers the focus of his defense, and some folks.....well, all of us.....were hoping that was going to be the case.
I believe we were citing the 2005 offense being top-tier and the defense having an unimpressive rank, but being inordinately good at snagging the ball and creating turnovers as the reason for optimism. My cynical take is that it is entirely possible one of our new coaches is going to be the reason the season was a "waste" like Zampese and Austin were. We have so many in over their heads coaches that it's going to take a lot of luck that I don't think the Bengals have for them to succeed right away.
But this just comes down to the excuses we make when things go wrong and how we've had 3 wasted seasons in a row. Let's see....
2015 - Dalton injured
2016 - Zampese is crap
2017 - Zampese is crap
2018- Lazor is crap, Austin is crap, Marvin is crap
Dishonorable Mention: 1992 - 2018 - Our HC's are all crap
I just can't help but feel like betting our team is healthy and all of our coaches aren't crap is like going to Vegas and putting it all on 00 green.