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MaximumSam
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So, to be honest, I didn't watch a single snap of the Bengals yesterday. I did watch the Buckeye basketball team struggle with UMass-Lowell, which was disappointing, but they still put it together in the end and won the game. Then I forced my family to walk to the park, because it was sort of warmish yesterday and it's cold and rainy today, and supposed to snow all night. Get out the house, right?
It's one thing for a team to stink. We've stunk all year, willed to competitiveness by Joe Burrow being good at football before his knee got obliterated. Now he's gone, and it's the rest of the team that has to perform. This is when a coach earns his paycheck. I could coach Joe Burrow to throw to the open guy every play. I couldn't coach Brandon Allen into being a competent quarterback. Neither can Zac Taylor. Nor can he get a decent performance out of the rest of the team. On a day when we started a guy from the practice squad, we gave Gio 8 carries. Perine got no carries. Taylor apparently felt the key to victory was on the arm of his practice squad QB, because he hasn't bothered to establish a run game all season. That resulted in the offense getting a grand total of 155 yards, just 43 more than the Broncos, who were down four quarterbacks and started a receiver. We were down one quarterback, and the result was more or less the same.
I don't normally put the coaches in here, not because they are good, but because I don't want it to be the coach every week. But per the Athletic, Taylor's winning percentage is .173, fifth worst in NFL history among coaches with a comparable number of games. It's going to get worse, but I don't know if it's going to get better.
It's one thing for a team to stink. We've stunk all year, willed to competitiveness by Joe Burrow being good at football before his knee got obliterated. Now he's gone, and it's the rest of the team that has to perform. This is when a coach earns his paycheck. I could coach Joe Burrow to throw to the open guy every play. I couldn't coach Brandon Allen into being a competent quarterback. Neither can Zac Taylor. Nor can he get a decent performance out of the rest of the team. On a day when we started a guy from the practice squad, we gave Gio 8 carries. Perine got no carries. Taylor apparently felt the key to victory was on the arm of his practice squad QB, because he hasn't bothered to establish a run game all season. That resulted in the offense getting a grand total of 155 yards, just 43 more than the Broncos, who were down four quarterbacks and started a receiver. We were down one quarterback, and the result was more or less the same.
I don't normally put the coaches in here, not because they are good, but because I don't want it to be the coach every week. But per the Athletic, Taylor's winning percentage is .173, fifth worst in NFL history among coaches with a comparable number of games. It's going to get worse, but I don't know if it's going to get better.