Football Grump

I think that he gives up a ton of yards with a strategy that sort of prevents chunk plays.

But, you know, he tries to make offenses work for points.

Like you're going to have to dink a dunk and you're going to have to be perfect defensively.

you know, turnovers like you're going to have to execute, you know, 12 to 15 play drives if you want to score on us.

And I understand that strategy.

It's just, A, I hate it.

And B, the numbers show that it hasn't really done him many favors.

And, you know, you look back and there's not a whole lot of inspiring hires.

You know, James Boettcher is probably the one name you'd even recognize off of that.

And that's not an inspiring hire.

The best thing I really can say about him is, you know,

I've always felt that the Cincinnati Bengals have done a bad job as an organization in acquiring talent and they've been ignoring holes, right?

They've been ignoring stuff for years and they continue to ignore it and they're just going to keep going the way they're going to go and they know better than me.

So whatever, right?

But when he did have...

When his defense, especially the defensive backfield, was loaded with a bunch of average talent with a few above-average guys back when he had Eli Apple, Jesse Bates, Von Bell, Chidobi Awujiye, Trey Flowers, Dax Hill, and Cam Taylor-Britt, he got the most out of all of those guys.

So like I said, maybe inside of him there is a head coach that can get the most out of guys, and maybe he's a hands-off guy where he doesn't need to run his defense and he can just be a head coach.

I'm not willing to take that chance.

I have a whole bunch of notes, and instead I'm just going to read.

Hit me with them.