(01-08-2018, 12:19 AM)mroudfly Wrote: Apparently we are in negotiations trying to land Austin at the moment...Per Rapoport...

(01-08-2018, 12:32 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Ugh....

I wanted Fangio

(01-08-2018, 12:40 AM)RobertG Wrote: This is what NFL.com said about Austin:

- Under Austin's watch, Detroit's defenses regressed over time, ranking second, 18th, 18th and 27th in yards allowed from 2014 to 2017.-

(01-08-2018, 12:40 AM)RobertG Wrote: This is what NFL.com said about Austin:

- Under Austin's watch, Detroit's defenses regressed over time, ranking second, 18th, 18th and 27th in yards allowed from 2014 to 2017.-

(01-08-2018, 01:54 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: That sounds like he's been training to be a Bengals coach and is perfect for the job.

27th overall
27th passing
18th rushing
21st scoring

In the smallest bit of fairness to him, his defense was 3rd in takeaways, which is leaps and bounds above the Bengals' t-30th. (That was one thing that became obvious Paulie G couldn't coach, as he lost Zimmer's players and started drifting away from simply copying his scheme, the turnovers plummeted.)

(01-08-2018, 01:54 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: That sounds like he's been training to be a Bengals coach and is perfect for the job.

27th overall
27th passing
18th rushing
21st scoring

In the smallest bit of fairness to him, his defense was 3rd in takeaways, which is leaps and bounds above the Bengals' t-30th. (That was one thing that became obvious Paulie G couldn't coach, as he lost Zimmer's players and started drifting away from simply copying his scheme, the turnovers plummeted.)

Quote:Y'all won't be disappointed. We've been short of talent, sure, but we haven't had any front 7 talent developed.

Austin is a secondary whisperer; our CB that converted to a SS (Quandre Diggs) was looking like a pro bowler towards the end of the year; y'all already know about Slay and Quin.

Our front 7 is in the midst of a rebuild right now. All year, it consisted of: rookie but stud MLB (Jarrad Davis), solid starting OLB that has peaked and isn't good in coverage (Tahir Whitehead), and rookie 4th-round pick OLB (Reeves-Maybin); an injured Ziggy Ansah, Haloti Ngata for only a few games, a bargain-bin backup DT forced into the DT1 role (Akeem Spence), and a rotating door of backups on the ends (Anthony Zettel, Cornelius Washington, UDFAs).

Paired with some talent in the front 7, he can take a defense far. The 2014 Lions, which featured Suh, a healthy Ansah, Nick Fairley, Devin Taylor,/George Johnson on the DL, DeAndre Levy (Pro Bowl year OLB), Stephen Tulloch (solid starting MLB), and Tahir Whitehead (solid starting OLB as mentioned above), and a secondary complete with a year-2 Darius Slay, pro-bowler Glover Quin, Rashean Mathis, and James Ihedigbo...

(01-08-2018, 01:53 AM)LebanonFan Wrote: On the cincyjungle story, sounds like we were high on Austin's defense consistently forcing turnovers; Lions finished 3rd in the league this season.....


"Austin has coached up the Lions’ defense since 2014. During that span, Detroit has finished third, 23rd, 13th and 21st in points per game allowed. Austin’s defense has consistently been among the NFL’s best at forcing turnovers. This year, the Lions finished third in the NFL with 32 takeaways, despite playing five rookies in starting or key backup roles.


That’s likely what caught Lewis’ eye as he continues to rebuild his coaching staff. Austin had a recent coaching stint with the Baltimore Ravens as their secondary coach from 2011-13, so Marvin Lewis and the Bengals have some familiarity with him. He was also defensive coordinator for the Florida Gators in 2010.
Prior to that, Austin joined the Arizona Cardinals coaching staff as their defensive backs coach from 2007-09. In 2009, he helped the team reach Super Bowl XLIII, where they would lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers."


https://www.cincyjungle.com/2018/1/7/16861802/bengals-closing-teryl-austin-defensive-coordinator-report-nfl-rumors

(01-08-2018, 03:13 AM)TKUHL Wrote: So much for landing Del rio. Hope this guy has this D playing aggressive and plays the right players.

(01-08-2018, 09:37 AM)Wyche Wrote: Y'all had to know there was NO WAY we were going for that, right?  Way too high profile, and most likely too much money.  Nothing to see here.......

(01-08-2018, 09:54 AM)Au165 Wrote: The defense is Oakland is basically what held the team back the last couple years. Why does everyone act like that would be a good hire? If the guy was a defensive genius you'd think he could have worked with his D coordinator to fix it right? If we are going to knock Austin for a regressing defense why not Del Rio too?