10-05-2020, 10:16 AM
(10-05-2020, 10:11 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I was never on the "Let's fire Taylor" train, at least from a playcalling perspective, because it is incredibly difficult to grade a playcaller when they don't have a functional QB (as in 2019) or a functional Oline (as in the first 3 games of 2020). I did criticize him but more in his personnel decisions, like how did he think this offensive line was ready for the NFL? We heard how great they looked all off season and then spending almost no capital on it in free agency or the draft? Yikes.
With that said, I'm very pleased to see that when our Oline holds up, Taylor calls a very nice game. There were receivers running open on every play, there were holes to run through and there were some really nice deep plays that just barely didn't work out (one of them due to an uncalled DPI, of course).
Let's hope they build on this momentum and continue to improve along the offensive line.
I think that is one of his strengths. He has loaded this team with winners from other teams in the free agent market, and drafted players who were Captains on their teams in a move to bring a winning attitude and a winning culture to the Bengals. Look at our new backers, along with the veteran Bynes. They even have Evans playing better than he ever has. Personnel moves, to me, is where Taylor is shining.
