(11-07-2019, 07:30 PM)bengaloo Wrote: This losing streak didnt start with Zac. We have sucked for 3 years now. He doesnt look very good right now, but with an offensive line as bad as ours, who would. If we had Jonah, Glenn, AJ and Ross all playing for even just 80% of our games, we may have won a few of the close ones. We've been going downhill fast since Big Whit left. Whatever coach coaches this team is going to have to contend with that if they expect to win games. Zac is just a human he cant create OT's out of thin air. We drafted the best one in the draft and had Andre Smith as the opening day starter regardless of that.
As much as teams(especially this one)want to fill starting positions with draft picks it doesn't always work that way... health or other reasons.
It sure would've been nice to see them be more active this off season at O-Line and not put all of the eggs in the draft basket.
I get it, that Price could have had a shaky first season and possibly could come back healthy as a viable starter somewhere on the line.
I was one of the few on here who was not sold on Glenn from what I'd seen from him.
Hart should not be starting anywhere in my opinion and he was their "big" FA signing.
The whole Redmon/Westerman thing was a debacle question mark like Fisher was before.
Really Trey Hopkins was the only one I had hope for because he seemed to be at least solid for stop gap and what you'd call real depth across the line.
Saying that I had no idea that he'd be the highest graded of all starters.
Boling was declining but that one I'll give the FO for not seeing him retiring.
All written above sure didn't make me feel better going into this season as a fan.
That's why I picked 5-11 in the season poll.
I voted that, but in my mind I really didn't know what to expect from Zac and had hoped that his coaching could improve inadequacies in other areas of the team.
That is the problem. 8 games in and almost every position at every phase has declined.
A change of QB spark and injured players coming back could help tremendously.
I'm not ready to write ZT off just yet but my confidence level is not very high.
The management of Bengals don't really help him... so yeah... I'm not thinking he's going to have an epic coach turnaround here.