01-04-2021, 10:56 PM
(01-04-2021, 10:04 PM)TheBengalsMind Wrote: Zac Taylor "We are a better team than we showed."To be fair, COVID has made things more difficult for a developing team versus an established one. Nonetheless, 2-14 last year, 4-11-1 this year, if we go 8-8 next, that's an exponential curve ... 16-0 in 2022, baby!
If we take Zac at his word, then why is this team not performing to their potential?
Is it the coaches or is it the players?
The blame for 6-25-1 has to be on one of the two, if not both.
You don't end up with what is arguably and objectively one of the worst two season starting records by a coach in NFL history by happenstance.
Something well done, is always better then something well said.
Because without actually growth, progress and substance, such words as improvement, achievement, success and winning have no meaning.
People will buy into Zac for another year, but not if there isn't some significant changes to the coaching staff. It'd be a slap in the face to fans.
As for Joe Burrow almost nothing can stop a man, no THE man, with this kind of mental attitude and fortitude from achieving his goal.
If he says I can do this, then the team will believe they can do it. That's the kind of leader he is.
Really, though, the thing I find most disturbing is the report that the front office is making coaching staff decisions for Zac. Frankly, that would be my biggest measuring stick of him. Evaluate the coaching staff independently, give ZT as much rope as he wants in making retention/firing decisions on his staff and then decide what to do with him based on that. He's had two years with the 2nd one admittedly being really strange. The one thing he should have total control over is whether he has the right staff. If you don't think he's effectively managing that, let him go. If the FO is taking that out of his hands, they're also taking their best evaluation yardstick out of their own hands. (then again, should we be surprised?)
