09-16-2019, 11:50 AM
(09-15-2019, 11:19 PM)Aquapod770 Wrote: He got canned before he could even finish one season in Dallas. He sucks.
The lines in Cincy have had a ton of talent on them throughout the years. This year and last year were really the first two with really subpar talent.
Just because some of them weighed a ton, doesn't mean they had a ton of talent.
The 1980's had a great O Line. The 1970's weren't bad. Whitworth & Co was a good O Line those 5 straight play-off years.
However in the 1990's, most of 2000's up to 2011, and from 2017 to now, the Bengals have rolled out some of the worst O Lines in NFL History. I point out that these years all under Mike Brown who from Max Montoya to Zeitler and Whitworth let them go saying in media, " Why Should I Pay Offensive Linemen ? ". So Mike Brown replaces them with guys that weighed a ton, but instead of a ton of talent they bring a ton of losses.
Fans always over rate the talent of Bengals players thinking it is all coaching. The truth is the Bengals in many years were weak in talent, the cheapest team Mike Brown could field.
That said, I'm glad the OP said he is joking, because going backwards into Bungles old coaches not the answer. If we want Bengals and not Bungles, you go into the future and not the past. The New Dey coaches are not to blame for the lack of talent they inherited a few months back, or the lousy player moves of Mike Brown & Family & Tobin & Marvin.
This goes for a defense that fans have some players over rated thinking the D is load on talent. There is Atkins and Dunlap and then some home town hero's that just don't get the job done. If this team had all this so called talent, they could block and tackle, but this is 3rd straight year they can't. I'm not sure we could give away any of our O Linemen, let alone trade them. Who would want them ?
1968 Bengal Fan
