SI Report - Bengals planning "major shake up" to Taylor's staff

[*SHRacerX*]

(01-03-2021, 01:07 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Why would Zac Taylor be respected around the league? One good year as a QB coach? That’s not enough to earn a HC job in your mid thirties. Especially when your only coordinator experience was an interim stint, and a dreadful college season. He literally has done nothing to earn respect/confidence whatever you want to call it. And after 2 terrible seasons it’s probably even worse now. Which is one reason I’m not that bothered by keeping Lou. I don’t think we can even do much better. He was a 5th choice when Taylor was still an unknown. I can’t even imagine who we’d had settle for now that people have a couple years sample of him.

Marvin was and is more respected than Taylor. Period. It’s mind boggling to me anyone would even debate that.

Ok, look back and follow this conversation.  The original statement that I disagreed with was that Marvin got better assistant coaches because he was respected better around the league.  There was a strong sentiment on this board that Taylor was not respected around the league and that is why a coach like Del Rio didn't take the job here.  I disputed that.  I didn't say Marvin wasn't respected.  I didn't say he was more respected.  I said that I did not believe that ZT was not respected and that was not the reason for the lack of high quality assistants.

Since then, Fred joined in and it took all kinds of twists and turns around that basic belief. 

The coaches Marvin got in Gruden and Zimmer were not hot commodities desired around the league, but the Bengals caught lightening in a bottle with both of them.  Zimmer had experience, but didn't leave Atlanta on good terms and was openly very critical of Bobby Petrino (understandably).  Marv had been through several defensive coordinators that sucked (Breshnahan, Frazier) and ended up with another one that sucked after Zimmer and Guenther (Austin).  It wasn't like we had a parade of quality coaches lining up to coach under Marv.  Zimmer worked here.  He was exactly what those teams needed.  Gruden was a very big unknown and did very well here.  The Bengals knew what they had in those assistants and paid them very well to stay, but they ultimately got head coaching gigs and left.  

It will be interesting to see the quality coaches ZT (who is apparently staying put) will be provided after this minor overhaul.  I really hope they can steal Bill from the Browns.  His line was really good this year.

As far as why Anarumo is being retained (if he in fact is), I think it has a lot to do with not having a new DC come in while ZT is essentially in a prove it year.  If ZT doesn't prove it, that DC would likely be swept out in favor of the next coach's choice.  Might as well make it a one-year package deal.