12-09-2020, 07:35 PM
(12-09-2020, 07:03 PM)kevin Wrote: You mean Covid...Not every coach took over a Bengals team that fired Marvin and all coaches after very awful 2017 and 2018 seasons. This put Bengals in complete rebuild like an expansion team. Most NFL teams were not starting a NEW DEY TOTAL REBUILD when COVID took away normal scouting, practices and preseason. Bengals needed preseason more than Super Bowl Chiefs or most teams, being the Worst Team in NFL. The O Line and Defense were Worst in NFL in Marvins last years. To Rebuild this awful team we knew would take a few off seasons of Free Agents and Draft Picks. Yes, Bengals were worse than Miami. Zac has been dealt all the cards from the bottom of the deck. Zac and Rebuilding Bengals in need of a less Covid 2021. 2020 has not been a normal football season.
Again, if they fire Zac, Eric Bieniemy would be my choice.
Zac took over a team coming off of 6 wins. He has produced 4 wins in the 2 years since.
Let's look at the other 5 first time head coaches hired in 2019:
Like Zac, 4 of them took over teams with 6/7 wins. Kingsbury took over a 3 win team. Four of them have produced at least 11 wins thus far, the only guy who hasn't because he got canned (Freddie Kitchens) still racked up more wins in his one year than Zac.
Hell, the 3 first time head coaches hired this year (who all had to deal with Covid/no preseason as rookie HC's) all have as many, or more, wins than Zac has in 2 years...and they haven't even completed a full season yet.
No matter how you slice it, every coach hired with and since Zac has been better than him, far better in most cases.
2019 First time head coaches / record the previous year
- Freddie Kitchens, Cleveland : 6-10 (7-8-1)
- Matt LaFleur, Green Bay : 22- 6 (6-9-1)
- Brian Flores, Miami : 13-15 (7-9)
- Vic Fangio, Denver : 11-17 : (6-10)
- Zac Taylor, Cincinnati : 4-23-1 (6-10)
- Kliff Kingsbury : 11-16-1 (3-13)
- Matt Rhule : 4-8 (5-11)
- Joe Judge: 5-7 (4-12)
- Kevin Stefanski : 9-3 (6-10)
