08-06-2020, 08:15 PM
You have to be pretty damn good to keep your job when the head coach gets replaced. Darrin Simmons has done a solid job.
I'm sure there are plenty of ways to nit pick at the way these rankings are compiled, but Simmons has such a large sample size (17 years as head of Bengals ST) it shows he is pretty consistent. Bengals have finished in the top ten 6 times in the last nine years. When Simmons took over in '03 the Bengals ST had ranked 30th and 32nd the 2 previous years. They ranked in the top half of the legue his first year and top ten in his second. They have ranked in the top half of the league 11 times.
He has produced a First Team All Pro KR (Adam Jones '14), and Pro Bowlers at punter (Huber '14), PK (Shayne Graham '05), coverage (Cedric Peerman '15) and even long snapper (Clark Harris'17).
I'm sure there are plenty of ways to nit pick at the way these rankings are compiled, but Simmons has such a large sample size (17 years as head of Bengals ST) it shows he is pretty consistent. Bengals have finished in the top ten 6 times in the last nine years. When Simmons took over in '03 the Bengals ST had ranked 30th and 32nd the 2 previous years. They ranked in the top half of the legue his first year and top ten in his second. They have ranked in the top half of the league 11 times.
He has produced a First Team All Pro KR (Adam Jones '14), and Pro Bowlers at punter (Huber '14), PK (Shayne Graham '05), coverage (Cedric Peerman '15) and even long snapper (Clark Harris'17).
