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Originally Posted by St. Patty's Fire
i think firing lou is idiotic. they basically let all their defensive talent walk because the owner is cheap and havent replaced them at all. what exactly were they expecting?
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It's a little funny, though -- I mean aren't the Bengals the AFC version of the Lions?
The Bengals have Hendrickson, the Lions have Hutchinson and the rest of the parts are pretty comparable around their big guns. ESPECIALLY this version of the Lions where most of their key defensive players are hurt.
The offensive weapons are comparable -- the Lions have Gibbs/LaPorta and the Bengals don't, but St. Brown/Williams aren't at the same level as Chase/Higgins either.
And the Lions just keep winning games. Big games against quality opponents. Meanwhile the Bengals keep looking for justifications as to why they lose them.
It's not just talent - the Bengals organizational mindset is just balls.
Zac Taylor's complete refusal to have these guys ready to play when the season starts is one of the strangest damn things I've ever seen. Taylor is 8-15-1 in September since he's been the HC. He's started 0-2 in 5 of his 6 seasons.
It still seems to me like Taylor's an OC masquerading as a HC.