Perspective

[THE PISTONS]

(12-16-2020, 02:06 PM)ochocincos Wrote: The Bengals were kind of in a tough spot with hiring that year.
They either had to take a chance on someone who hadn't been a HC before or gone after someone who was just "meh" as a HC in the past. Rarely do teams have the opportunity to get a guy as a HC who had won or at least been to a SB before.

When looking back at who the Bengals interviewed, they really didn't have much better candidates to pick from.
The Bengals interviewed 8 candidates:
- Taylor
- Todd Monken (OC - Bucs at time)
- Shane Waldron (pass coordinator - Rams)
- Vance Joseph
- Darrin Simmons
- Eric Bieniemy
- Bill Lazor
- Hue Jackson

Monken became the Browns' OC in 2019 then left to become OC/QB Coach at Georgia.
Bieniemy didn't get hired anywhere else in 2019 and also didn't get hired by anyone in 2020. It didn't help either that Bieniemy has a long rap sheet too for various run-ins with the law.
Waldron is still the passing coordinator for the Rams.
All the other guys were former Bengals coaches who no one really wanted as the next HC.
The only guys with actual HC experience were Joseph and Jackson, both of whom had bad records as HC prior.

It was a bad list of candidates, but other teams hired good ones. Some teams hire search firms to handle their HC searches. I think that would be a good option here.

It was a weird year for coaching hires. Most of the teams had their guy and you didn't see 2-3 teams compete for a guy.

McDaniels left the Colts at the alter and they ended up with Reich. We just missed on Zac and missed on our list in general. We interviewed way too many guys with ties to the team. Bill Lazor? Really?