12-07-2022, 09:46 PM
(12-06-2022, 10:12 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Lou Anarumo is the best defensive coordinator the Bengals have had since Di... — I mean Richard — LeBeau. Lou is better than Mike Zimmer and I never thought I could admit this but it’s true. He is. Remember when the Bengals couldn’t cover a tight end? Those days are over.
What are you basing this off of? Outside of not able to "cover a tight end"...as if that's what determines the entire success of a defense.
According to Lou himself, yards don't mean jack and points are how he determines how good his defense played.
In 6 years with the Bengals Zimmers defense averaged 12th in the league with two top 5 defenses.
In 4 years with the Bengals Lou's defense has averaged 18th in the league with zero top 10 defenses.
Both took over garbage defenses and made them better over time but to claim Lou's have been better is just a blatant lie not backed by any metric outside of maybe yards given up to TEs.
Minnesota went from the worst defense in 2013 to averaging being top 10 Zimmers first 5 years, overall 7.8 with multiple top 5 defenses. It dropped to 11.8 overall after his last two years when they were pretty poor defenses.
I do think Lou has done a good job though and would want him to stay.
