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My Bengals made the mistake of not making Bill Walsh coach, and he beat us twice in the Super Bowl.

I loved the guy - except for those two days. He changed the NFL dramatically.

Rest in Peace, Bill.

And thank you.

You know despite the fact that he worked numerous HOF quarterbacks, Walsh said that the greatest talent that he ever encountered at the quarterback position was Greg Cook. Cook was the Bengals' rookie quarterback back in 1969. Cook suffered a tear in the rotator cuff of his throwing shoulder but it went undiagnosed until after the season. It wound up effectively ending his career.

Walsh maintained that if Cook hadn't suffered that injury that together they would have set records that would have never been broken. No NFL quarterback since '69 has been able to equal Cook's 17.5 yards a completion average. And, again, that was done with a rookie quarterback playing on a second year expansion team. A rookie who had missed training camp. A rookie who played the majority of his games with a tear in the rotator cuff of his throwing shoulder. Absolutely unreal.

Watching the Bengal offense from that '69 season you would never believe you were looking at what was in fact a Bill Walsh offense. It was the complete antithesis of what you saw in San Francisco.

"My Bengals made the mistake of not making Bill Walsh coach, and he beat us twice in the Super Bowl.
I loved the guy - except for those two days. He changed the NFL dramatically.
Rest in Peace, Bill.

And thank you."

Hey Badeye! You wrote my post!

But c'mon...sure the Bengals passed over Bill Walsh, but we did hire great coaches like Homer Rice, Tiger Bill Johnson, and David Shula. /s