09-16-2019, 08:36 AM
(09-16-2019, 12:41 AM)samhain Wrote: I never understood the hiring of Jim Turner. Yeah, he got drummed out of the league for playing a part in a strange scandal that made him look bad. That's what people think of when they hear his name.
However, even without the Martin/Incognito storyline, I just don't see a body of work that makes him the guy that you want to bring in to fix your long-suffering line. He's got a tough guy reputation for all of the dumb shit he's done, but the fire-breathing approach hasn't reaped much in the way of results. He's a below average o-line coach that most people never would have heard of if it weren't for the stupid incidents he was a part of that got publicized.
His track record so far in Cincinnati consists of stumping for our incumbent steaming shitpile of a right tackle in free agency and bringing in a dude he coached a long time ago in Miami that had been run out of the league for a year. Yay.
Sanders was only one of the top 3-4 RB's to ever play the game and he would have Mixon numbers halfway thru the 3rd quarter in most games, take a deep handoff or a pitch, have no where to go and then because of god-given talent go 65 yards so all of a sudden his numbers for that game would all of a sudden be 16 carries for 110 yards after that long run.
Bungles entire OL is a joke right now and has been for the last 3-4 years. Of course, losing 3 supposed starters is causing major major chemistry issues...Bad bad blueprint right now is this OL is bad enough to get torched by 5-6 players stacked up on the DL leaving 5-6 players still back to cover.
Seattle was the guinnea pig a week ago because they had no film yet nor an idea how bad the running game would be so they stacked their guys up front and dared Dalton to beat them in the air which he did. Well, not anymore and SF proved that.
