01-05-2020, 04:07 AM
(01-05-2020, 03:57 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Just because he was around doesn’t mean he was 100%. We know Dunlap wasn’t most of the year. You can keep going on about bad teams all you want, but everyone gets to play bad teams. We’re a bad team. I’m fine with being somewhat encouraged about what we saw down the stretch.
Do I think they’ll have a “great year” next season? Doubtful. A great year to me would be winning the division and maybe even winning a playoff game or two. I’ll settle for seeing some significant improvements. Winning more than 2 games would be a good start.
And the best start towards that is by not building a narrative that the status quo is good because everything was improving towards the end of the season.
Bad coaches are bad. The team needs more talent, but even if they got that, I don't trust Zac Taylor and his offensive offensive scheme with Joe Burrow's development.
It also seems absurd to trust Lou with the defense when there were people like Ron Rivera and Jack Del Rio looking for jobs until Washington snapped them both up while the Bengals were patting themselves on the back at being 2-6 over the final 8 games with "improvement" over a historically bad first half of the season into merely mundanely bad.
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