Lou’s Future in the Jungle

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(01-13-2023, 11:07 AM)Wyche Wrote: I'll close with this though.... playing meaningful games in January and February, who's defense would you rather have out there and have the most faith in? Zimmer's or Lou's? Just look at the Raiders game....do we make a game sealing INT with Zims bunch, or choke away the game? I'm going with this unit, regular season stats be damned. 

Are we giving both the ability to sign outside FAs like DJ Reader, Trey Hendrickson, Larry Ogunjobi, Vonn Bell, and Mike Hilton? Or is one of them stuck with Pat Sims/Tank Johnson, Michael Johnson, Domata Peko, Nedu Ndukwe/Chris Crocker/Roy Williams? Because that makes a HUGE difference. I can't reiterate enough that the last 3 years have seen probably around 8 of the 10 largest defensive outside free agent contracts the Bengals have ever given out. The Bengals under Zimmer got Antwan Odom and I honestly think the 2nd largest signing after that in 6 years was Nate Clements.

Are we giving them both Joe Burrow on the other side to help them? Because Burrow had 70.6% completion, 244 yards, 2 TD/0 INT, 110.4 QB Rating in that game while throwing to the best WR trio the Bengals have EVER had.

If you give both Zimmer and Anarumo the exact same level of talent to work with? I'm taking Zimmer. He's had a top-5 defense with 3 different teams. His defenses won a playoff game while Kirk Cousins was their QB for one year and Case Keenum was their QB for another, and were a missed 27 yard FG from winning one with Teddy Bridgewater at QB another year. Winning in the playoffs was a Marvin culture problem.