Black monday is coming

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(12-28-2020, 11:17 AM)Au165 Wrote: I am curious what people thought were realistic expectations for win totals this year when they thought we'd have Burrow the whole season along with Waynes/Reader/Atkins/Dunlap/etc.? Just for a second assuming we win this week and end at 5 wins, how far off were we from what you expected? That is remembering we were a bad PI call from another win.

I don't think Taylor is some sort of coaching savant or anything, but I had them as a 6-7 win team coming into the season WITH Burrow/Reader/Waynes/Atkins/Dunlap/etc. so I think they performed about as I had thought they would. Now that said I expect a winning season next year as that is the normal progression and if we don't hit it then it'll be time to move on.

This is the rational approach.  I don't see how ZT and Lou aren't back next year, and maybe a defensive line and offensive line coach are the sacrificial lambs.  I never liked Turner.  So odd how a coach that preaches culture and communication hires such an assbag.  I guess it is the family ties.  If you get rid of Lou, you will have a very thin selection pool at DC because that position will still be under ZT.  If ZT is fired after year three, then the new coach will want his own staff.  Just keep them together for year three.  If they aren't above 8 wins next year, buh-bye.

Now, that being said, and I am trying to be rational about keeping ZT and Taylor (as one of the very few that didn't vote to fire ZT on a poll earlier in the year and was crucified for it), I have this nagging feeling of spontaneous WTF moments throughout the season.  

How do they never screen when the Browns, Eagles, and Ratbirds were all teeing off on Burrow?  They kept calling play after play downfield and Burrow was getting pounded.  Even my 87 year old father was yelling at the TV (something he never does):  "Throw a damn screen!".  Then, they finally do it in the second Browns game and it works incredibly well.  Did they not practice those plays leading in to a game with a really good pass rush?  Did they lose that page of the playbook?

They keep running AJ Green out there when he is a walking incompletion/interception for the other team.  Yes, he was historically great.  But now he is historically bad.  Ross had a ball hit him on the hip (because he wasn't ready for it) and we sat him the rest of the year.  AJ just keeps rolling out there, almost like playing with 10 guys against 11.  

The rushing attack?  What rushing attack?  We just spent $12 million on a RB and we abandon the run after one drive?  Our offensive line coach is apparently only capable of teaching run blocking and we choose to throw the ball 61 times? 

Why is LeShawn Sims on the field, ever?  

There are many more.  Things that defy logic.  Of course, when a reporter asks a question about such a subject, they get scoffed at by the coach in the classic "you don't know what we know" attitude.  I know most coaches at all levels are raging egomaniacs, but what the HELL do you have to be arrogant about?  The fact that you rode coat tails to a Super Bowl (where your offense looked pathetic)?  Regardless, I think it works best for the team to get rid of Turner, but give Lou and ZT one more year.  If it doesn't click next year, wipe the slate clean and bring in a whole new staff.