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4 thoughts on Bengals firing Jim Turner, other assistants

Nearly two years ago, Zac Taylor assembled the largest coaching staff in the history of the Cincinnati Bengals. For a franchise that deals with the perception of being small potatoes and embodying the less is more mentality, suddenly envisioning strength in numbers became a fresh change of pace.

Most of the original 24 coaches helped produce that exact number of losses in their now two years together. Fair or unfair, change had to happen somewhere, and the Bengals’ front office surely won’t see any turnover anytime soon.

Before the Bengals closed out the season against the Baltimore Ravens, reports of OL coach Jim Turner, DL coach Nick Eason, and defensive assistant Gerald Chatman not returning to the coaching staff in 2021 surfaced.