How To Make the Defense Legit

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(05-13-2019, 04:50 PM)PAjwPhilly Wrote: Lou Anarumo is the defensive coordinator (for those that never picked up his name). He has 4-3 experience (Kevin Coyle assistant/ Miami). And he has 3-4 experience (James Bettcher assistant/ Giants). Supposedly Coyle's 4-3 has some similarities with Zimmer's 4-3 once ran here in Cincinnati: Double A-gap blitz and pressing corner backs. And he wants to incorporate some of his 3-4 stuff into our defense as well.

I'd say that our defensive unit is... Average secondary, below average LBs, above average defensive line.

So... how do you make this work?

I feel that last year we ran passive defenses too often. We didn't seem to do anything creative. It always seemed like we rushed 4 and dropped our LBs into coverage. But I only get to watch the game once (Sunday Ticket). I remember a post game comment where Carlos mentioned... you can't just do the same thing all the time and expect something to change.

I am under the impression that if you can't hold coverage for 4, 5, or 6 seconds you need to blitz hard and play underneath. But I never saw that from us last year. I rarely ever see a D-line shift late in the snap count, even D-line twists, or bringing multiple blitzes from the same area (all of which I would label creative for us).

How do you go about using our 2019 unit to be the best it can be?


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First of all...good topic. Biggest issue is this defense. It gives me hope that they showed some fight when they canned Austin and went with more press man. The secondary is way above average, IMHO, but they have been hung out to dry by a lack of pressure. The opposition would ALWAYS go maximum protection and the bengals had no counter. That has to change. If they are going to max protect, the Bengals must adapt and send an extra pass rusher, and not always a LB. send a safety. Send a CB. Be creative, and be aggressive.

If there can be more pass rush, there can be more turnovers and better production from the LB corps and secondary.

I always hear about aggression, then the team would come out and play conservative trying not to get burnt deep. In the end, they would simply die a slow death, with zero chance of forcing a turnover or getting a stop.

Guys like Brees looked like he could have gone 30/30 completions. That changes, or we keep getting horrible results.