10-28-2017, 01:41 AM
(10-28-2017, 01:30 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: While I agree with what you are saying and I think coordinators do make a huge difference... I will point out that it seems when the Bengals D is being good, it looks exactly like what Zimmer ran. When it looks like crap, it's because Guenther is doing his own "unique" things like dropping Dunlap into coverage, or playing man coverage with both safeties in the box, or having his CBs play 10 yards off and dropping into a enormously porous zone.
Zimmer hasn't been in Cincy since 2013. This is PG's 4th year as DC and those guys switch things up and throw new wrinkles every year. While I'm sure there's *some* similarities to Zimmer's D, I think it's time to stop giving Zim credit for every bit of good while saying all bad is "the real PG".
That kinda reminds me of old Dalton arguments, where haters would credit any great performance to "weapons", while all bad was just "Andy being Andy". It's just having your cake and wanting to eat it too (which is saying I've never understood - who doesn't want to eat their cake).
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
