STUPID Play Call On Opening INT Lost Us The Game.......

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(11-07-2021, 08:43 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Fair observations, and I don't disagree at all.

But the next question becomes how do you fix it, since it is more than just Lou sucks, the team couldn't tackle under the last few coordinators back to Zimmer. 

Just hire Zimmer when he gets fired from Minnesota for hitching his cart to a $33m/yr horse named Kirk Cousins and have him bring Anthony Barr with him. Then throw whatever money you need at Alexander Johnson and go back to having a 3 LB defense when you combine those two with Logan Wilson. Then let him be a hardass during the times you're actually allowed to practice contact to get the absolute most out of it.

I do think that having a defensive scheme or whatever that leads to your safeties being 2 of your 3 leading tacklers is not good. In both 2020 AND 2019 the safeties were the leading 2 tacklers for the defense. So if you look at the top 2 tacklers for the last 3 years, out of a possible 6 players, 5 of them have been safeties. If you look at Zimmer's defenses with the Bengals, in the 6 years (so a possible 12 players) only 1 was a safety. 

Both safeties were the top tacklers in 2018, too. I just don't think it's a healthy sign of a defense if it keeps happening because what the hell are your LBs doing then? Troy Polamalu was a top-2 tackler on his team 1 time in 12 years, Ed Reed 0 times in 13 years. Jessie Bates 3 times in 4 years (with this year still in play, he's 3rd).