12-10-2020, 04:14 AM
(12-09-2020, 08:58 AM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: It's an age old dilemma: do you scheme around your fading stars who'll be done in a year or two or do you try and build around players that will fit the incoming staff's preferred scheme.
What it highlights is that there seems to be a disconnect between the Bengals Front Office and the Coaching staff. The Front Office wanted them to use Dunlap and Atkins but the Coaches wanted to rebuild in a different direction.
It's now clear that there was no point in holding onto Atkins, Green, Dunlap, Dalton, Eifert etc and they should have been traded away when Marvin left to acquire the draft capital to rebuild with a young, cost-controlled core. It's why - more than the coaching - this rebuild will take longer than the Dolphins'. With further coaching changes inevitable this off-season that just put further delays the Bengals' return to competitiveness.
If Taylor had a brain, he would have prioritized these players coming into his second year, if only to pad his resume with a win here or there in the inevitable meeting with the higher ups on his future as a HC.
If you're given lemons make lemonade, even though I don't think any of those three are lemons. Perhaps the proverb should be: If given old cucumbers, make pickles, since those three are old, but have yet to reach the brine point.
