Lou anarumo

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(01-07-2024, 12:51 PM)pally Wrote: Lou did adjust his defense by not calling half his playbook.  You can make adjustments but when your DBs zig when they were supposed to zag it doesn't matter what the adjustments are.

Dehner had an interesting column in The Athletic   (paywall warning) https://theathletic.com/5179557/2024/01/05/bengals-secondary-explosive-plays/
-Mike Hilton spent most of the season babysitting the young ones instead of focusing on his own play
-Logan Wilson was watching behind him to make sure they  were doing the right thing not ahead of him

Because the young DBs were still learning they never developed chemistry or improved on their communication skills.  That in turn disrupted the entire defense.  The good news is that no position shows great improvement from year one to year 2 than DB. We saw some flashes of what they can be when everything clicks.  I'm looking forward to seeing it.

I hope he doesn't magically have to babysit or Logan look behind him next year, I just don't see that huge jump happening. How would they have to do that all year and then suddenly clicks in the offseason where they don't have to do that anymore? I know rookies improve. They were terrible. No other team has rookies on their defense also dealing with this issue? I get it's an excuse, but if Hilton is having to teach all year and Lou can't do anything about to help them other than throw out half the playbook? We were gashed 10 times a game with explosive plays. There seems like more going on than just blaming rookies, like Awuzie doesn't look nearly full speed and even with Reader in they're 31st against the run.

How are they suddenly going to get chemistry when they showed they don't have any, they had some flashes but that's because they have talent. I hope they learn from their mistakes but I believe in experience gets you better the fastest, you have to play to improve, and there aren't any games in the off season lol.

They've got to improve on defense and quick, whether that's drafting or trading, they don't belong in the AFC-N letting squeaky offenses beat their porous defense while Burrow struggles to move the ball on any of them. CTB and Battle looked like they were good picks though!