Keep Lou Anarumo in Cincinnati

[Essex Johnson]

(12-07-2022, 09:46 PM)TheFan Wrote: 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.

What Lou has done with our defense in a short time is better than Zimmer in my opinion and just like Marvin and Dalton get hammered for zero wins in playoffs, it seems Zimmer never gets mentioned in how bad our defense played against the run in those games... To me Lou passed Zimmer with the great run he made in the playoffs last year especially if that seems to be what we most measure success by is winning in the playoffs..