Anyone want to see the "Hammer Offense" return?

[walzav29]

I watched the 2-0 Bengals play some guy named Faver or something last night from 1992 on the NFL channel. What a joke. They were talking about Shulas Hammer offense. Boomers longest completion at that point in the year was like 20 yards. They were talking up the great attitude of Carl Pickens and the duo of Brian Brennan and Tim McGee was scary. Ahhhhh the glory days.

This was Farve's 1st comeback and is now what I call the Farve curse. 50-124 since that game up until Marvin broke the curse. How dare you turn on Marvin!

[markymark69]

I watched some of that game too. I think it was Favre's first game, that he had played of any significance and thus the legend began.

To answer your question, there are elements of that offense that I would like to see. Because, obviously, a team has to run the football to be successful in the NFL.

If the Bengals can get the running game back and sure up the center position, the offense will be as potent as ever.

In watching that game last night, I couldn't help but wonder if Cincinnati would have held on and won that game, who knows how the history could have been different. That '92 team was greatly effected by that loss, just like last year's team let that loss to Cleveland effect them far too long.

[HAPPYJAQ]

I watched some of that game too. I think it was Favre's first game, that he had played of any significance and thus the legend began.

To answer your question, there are elements of that offense that I would like to see. Because, obviously, a team has to run the football to be successful in the NFL.

If the Bengals can get the running game back and sure up the center position, the offense will be as potent as ever.

In watching that game last night, I couldn't help but wonder if Cincinnati would have held on and won that game, who knows how the history could have been different. That '92 team was greatly effected by that loss, just like last year's team let that loss to Cleveland effect them far too long.

I don't think the Cleveland loss was more of an impact on the season than the inexperience and injuries on defense. I mean, for a great part of the year, the Bengals played 2-3 rookiers in the secondary at the same time, at a slow developing position in the NFL. CB and S might be the 2 positions that take the longest to develop in NFL skills in, after QB.

I remember watching that '92 game. The Bengals were really just outcoached and were only in that game due to the talent they had at the time, barely 2 years removed from a Super Bowl appearance. I believe it was one of Shula's first game and in Pickens and Klinger's rookie years. I still wondered what they were thinking when they hired Dave Shula.

[BengalszoneBilly]

I still wondered what they were thinking when they hired Dave Shula.

A future steakhouse is all I got.

[jjakq27]

I still wondered what they were thinking when they hired Dave Shula.

Don Shula played for Paul Brown in Cleveland back in the day. Maybe they were playmates when they were kids?

Seriously, I wish the Eagles had hired him a few years earlier instead of hiring Buddy Ryan.

[ShulaSteakhouse]

I still wondered what they were thinking when they hired Dave Shula.

A future steakhouse is all I got.

Cheap, easy, desperate for a HC job, name recognition for sheeple fans, someone no one else wanted...see Coslet, Lebeau and Lewis for more recent examples of this.

Dink and dunk offense was more appropriate BTW.

[HAPPYJAQ]

I still wondered what they were thinking when they hired Dave Shula.

A future steakhouse is all I got.

Cheap, easy, desperate for a HC job, name recognition for sheeple fans, someone no one else wanted...see Coslet, Lebeau and Lewis for more recent examples of this.

Dink and dunk offense was more appropriate BTW.

Don't say "dink and dunk offense"; makes me think of Neil O'Donnell and ambidextrous QB's from years past.

I still kinda wish that LeBeau had his offensive partner as an OC during his years as HC. His defenses here were pretty good here and the game had passed Coslet by, by that time. In that same regard, I always wish that Marv would put his focus back on D again and run the D himself.