Bengals Head Coaches with victories of 23 or more

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Paul Brown 13 times in 8 seasons, 4 on the road, 9 at home, 3 times in 70, 3 times in 72
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11-8-70 @ Buffalo 43-14
11-22-70 vs Pittsburgh 34-7
12-20-70 vs Boston 45-7
9-19-71 vs Philadelphia 37-14
11-28-71 vs San Diego 31-0
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9-17-72 @ New England 31-7
10-29-72 vs Houston 30-7
12-17-72 @ Houston 61-17
12-2-73 vs Minnesota 27-0
9-15-74 Cleveland Browns 33-7
11-24-74 vs Kansas City 33-6
12-7-75 @ Philadelphia 31-0
12-21-75 vs San Diego 47-17 - Paul Brown's final regular season game - lost next week @ Oakland in WC playoff game

Bob Johnson
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12-12-76 @ NY Jets 42-3

Homer Rice
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12-3-78 vs Atlanta 37-7
12-17-78 vs Cleveland 48-16
10-14-79 vs Pittsburgh 34-10
11-28-79 vs Philadelphia 37-13

Forrest Gregg
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10-18-81 vs Pittsburgh 34-7
11-8-81 @ San Diego 40-17
11-6-83 @ Houston 55-14
11-20-83 vs Houston 38-10

Sam Wyche, 14 times in 8 seasons, 3 times in 86, 4 times in 89(missed playoffs both seasons), 3 on the road, 11 at home, 1 playoff
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12-16-84 vs Buffalo 52-21
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12-8-85 vs Dallas 50-24
11-16-86 vs Seattle 34-7
12-7-86 @ New England 31-7
12-21-86 vs NY Jets 52-21
10-2-88 @ LA Raiders 45-21
11-6-88 vs Pittsburgh 42-7
9-17-89 vs Pittsburgh 41-10
10-29-89 vs Tampa Bay 56-23
11-19-89 vs Detroit 42-7
12-17-89 vs Houston 61-7
9-23-90 vs New England 41-7
11-18-90 @ Pittsburgh 27-3
1-6-91 Wild Card round vs Houston 41-14

David Shula - Zero times
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Career best 18 point victories @ Seattle in his 1st game in 1992 with Esiason and in Pittsburgh in 95 with Blake.
His biggest home victory was his only win in his final season before Coslet took over, 30-15 vs New Orleans, also with Blake.

Bruce Coslet
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12-4-97 vs Tennessee 41-14

Dick Le Beau
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11-3-02 @ Houston 38-3

Marvin Lewis 14 times in 16 seasons, back to back once in 2015, 5 on the road (4 @ Cleveland & 1 @ Detroit), 9 at home
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11-7-04 vs Dallas 26-3
9-18-05 vs Minnesota 37-8
12-18-05 @ Detroit 41-17
11-26-06 @ Cleveland 30-0
11-25-07 vs Tennessee 35-6
10-25-09 vs Chicago 45-10
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11-25-12 vs Oakland 34-10
10-27-13 vs NY Jets 49-9
12-22-13 vs Minnesota 42-14
9-21-14 vs Tennessee 33-7
12-14-14 @ Cleveland 30-0
11-29-15 vs St Louis 31-7
12-6-15 @ Cleveland 37-3
10-1-17 @ Cleveland 31-7

Zac Taylor back to back, both on the road
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10-17-21 @ Detroit 34-11
10-24-21 @ Baltimore 41-17

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

Great post.

PB & Wyche definitely the top 2 in coaching.

Marvin had some nice year's, but the oack of PO success means I still take Gregg for 3rd.

Kund of the same way I view the QBs. Kenny & Boomer far & away 1 & 2. Palmer & Dalton a distant 3rd & 4th. Burrow will be 6th by the end of this year (Kitna), if not higher.

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

I'll never forget Sam kicking an onsides kick in that 61-7 shellacking of Houston...

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(10-26-2021, 04:15 PM)Wyche Wrote: I'll never forget Sam kicking an onsides kick in that 61-7 shellacking of Houston...

The front page of the sports page in Anchorage, Alaska on the next day was a large picture of that recovery coming into your room taken by a photographer about 15 directly in feet in front of Ira Hillary on the sideline. 

Quote:It was December 18, 1989. The Bengals were leading the Houston Oilers 45 – 0 in the fourth quarter. Instead of simply kicking the ball back to the Oilers on the kickoff, Cincinnati executed an onside kick, which allowed them to regain possession of the ball. As shocking as this may seem now, it fit right in with the Bengals’ game plan that day. The fourth quarter alone showed the Bengals throwing on first down, going for it on fourth down and kicking a field goal with 21 seconds left in the game to solidify the final score of 61-7. All this on an Oilers team that was set to win the division.


So why did the Bengals run up the score on this particular day? Simply because Sam Wyche hated Jerry Glanville. Wyche had a lot to say after the game:

"We don't like this team we don't like their people. When you get a chance to do it (run up the score), you do it. I wish today this was a five-quarter game. I just don't like Jerry Glanville, I don't like phonies, and I don't think Jerry is a very genuine guy. The cheap shots they tried after our quarterback was down, their big mouths. Jerry tries coming up and talking to me before the game and when the cameras start rolling he puts his arm around you and smiles behind those dark glasses. When your football team is so talented and yet so undisciplined, you got to be ready to get kicked and the score run up on you. And that's exactly what happened today ... I feel sorry for the Houston players having to put up with him. He can take that hit-the-beach stuff and take it back to high school or wherever he got it from. He's a joke."

[Shake n Blake]

Wyche had the same amount as Marv in half the seasons.

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(10-26-2021, 10:34 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Wyche had the same amount as Marv in half the seasons.

That was kind of initially why I started looking at the scores. I don't really remember the Bengals blowing teams out very much in the ML era and since ZT just did it twice in a row on the road, I wanted to see how many Sam had along with them, so I compiled all three. Then I realized, afterwards, that I was over halfway done with the entire team so I did all of the easy pathetic seasons next then finished up with Paul Brown just to end on a high note after reliving the awful years. After going 0-8 in 1994(the beginning of the Jeff Blake era) the Bengals won three games, all by a field goal. Yeesh.

ML ALWAYS gave me the vibe of 'playing to the level of your opponents'. I wanted to see how many times they all had back to back blowouts and to ML's credit, he's the only other coach to do it . . . unfortunately, those back to back games were the last two games before Dalton broke his thumb.

Also note that all of PB's 8 seasons were 14 games and he took over an expansion team before Free Agency existed. 

Another PB nugget: The 1968 NFL Draft.
After the first round, The Bengals received the first and last pick of rounds 2 through 17. Through a series of trades of players they acquired in the expansion draft, the Bengal had NINE 6th round picks between #139 and #165, including Howard Fest, #139 and Essex Johnson, #156. Note that 2021 4th rounder D'Ante Smith was pick #139
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/cin/draft.htm