12-31-2019, 10:04 AM
(12-30-2019, 11:55 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: 2-14 record
Offense: 26th in yards, 30th in points
Defense: 29th in yards, 25th in points allowed
Not sure how we can look at that and say "they all just need seasoning".
People keep saying the defense got better, but we allowed 27, 34, 38 and 23 points over the last 4 weeks. I'm with Leonard Leap. Bad coaches don't get better just because you keep them. How many coaching staffs started 2-14, stayed 100% intact and wound up being great? I'm sure there are examples, but what are the odds?
A lot of people on here defended the Terryl Austin hire. A lot of people wanted to keep Zampese for another go. Sometimes coaches just are what their resumes say they are, and we've got a lot of weak resumes on this team.
Not all of those were on the D though. There's at least a couple of pick 6s in there, a muffed catch on special teams gifting points just before the interval etc. Anyone got the figures for just the D points conceded?
(12-31-2019, 01:26 AM)BengalChris Wrote: Dunlap and Hubbard were already good players. It took a bad scheme to hold them down.
Also, gotta notice that over the past 8 games the Bengals only played two teams with a winning record. Not exactly like the first half of the season.
The team ended up 2-14 matching the team's history worst, yet it has more talent that the previous 2-14 team had.
More bad drafts and ruining Burrow are real concerns. Dalton certainly didn't improve this season. He went from average to way below average in a single season. And that's a veteran, not a rookie.
If you want to criticize them for only playing two teams with a winning record in the second half you also need to cut them some slack for playing such a tough first half schedule - overall they still had the toughest schedule in the NFL.
(12-31-2019, 02:03 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Yep. People also act like just being on the job lo gre makes a coach better. This staff needs an experienced offensive mind as a mentor. They have none.
Taylor meets with Bengals management daily.
Going inexperienced HC and inexperienced coordinators robs them of mentors.
LOL @ at seguing from "people act like being on the job longer makes a coach better" to "this staff needs experience".
