11-20-2019, 12:42 PM
(11-20-2019, 11:19 AM)TheCincinnatiKid Wrote: If we draft at #1 there's no way we don't draft a QB. But by far the most important thing this offseason is the OL for me. It has been absolutely abysmal for years now. With an OL as bad as ours, we'd need Tom Brady and Adrian Peterson in their primes for anything to work. We have nothing close to either, so every QB/RB we field will simply suck until we fix the OL.
Should we draft a QB, I really hope they sit the first year as I can't see them having any tools for success as early as next season. Fix the OL, that will at least give a QB some time to develop while we build the rest of the team.
Obviously coaching is an issue. If we're being realistic we aren't fixing that in the offseason. I don't rate ZT whatsoever but I would give him the beginning of next season to see if he can make any progress.
Great coaches are able to make bad players look great. The PATS have great coaches that make ok players look like super stars and the coaches know they are not super stars so they don't get into the bidding war and allow those players to walk. The players that are super stars are paid and continue to play for the PATS.
Zac Taylor isn't that type of coach. ML wasn't that type of coach and this is why the FO needs to bring in quality FA that are truly worth their pay. They also need to draft the best available player in the draft.
I'm not expecting much next year from the Bengals. This year I will be surprised if they win 2 games. At this point it looks like they will go 1-15 or 0-16.
If ZT cannot get the Bengals to have a winning season next year I would move on from him. Or if the team starts off 0-4 I would let him go right during the press conference, especially if the team goes 0-16 this year.
