Lou Anarumo VS 2021 VS a replacement DC

[Nicomo Cosca]

(09-20-2020, 07:48 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yuuuup. The only reason the Bengals even had that stretch ('11-'15) was because of just 2 reasons.

1. Jay Gruden convincing Mike Brown to draft Andy Dalton instead of Ryan Mallett, who was Mike Brown's preferred QB.
2. Mike Zimmer's D

That's it.

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(Regardless of anyone's personal opinion of Dalton, I think we can 100% universally agree that if Ryan Mallett was the Bengals QB instead, it would have been dark times.)

AJ played a pretty big part as well. That 2011 draft of him and Dalton definitely setup the 5 playoff appearances in a row.