12-01-2024, 09:15 PM
(12-01-2024, 09:03 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote:The Bengals defense just had its worst performance of the season across the board against a middle of the pack Steelers offense.
— Gridiron Grading (@GridironGrading) December 1, 2024
Coming off a bye week.
With the season on the line.
Against a division rival.
Complete revamp needed on this side of the ball. pic.twitter.com/oCaPHP1B1C
Yeah I've seen enough. Lou is done and the defensive roster needs a mini-rebuild. If you can't win games staked to 35 point leads, then you aren't doing your job as a DC. Very few if any young players have developed well under his regime.
He's gotten several day 1 or 2 picks to work with over the last few drafts. Hill, CTB, Turner, Murphy. The only one that was viable early on was CTB and he's regressed significantly. You can't have that shit if you're trying to build a roster of young, affordable players to supplement the big money guys on offense. By the time they are ready (if they miraculously don't suck), they'll. be up for extensions and playing in another city. These guys don't have to be all-pros. They just have to be decent enough to hold down a 38 point lead for feck's sake.
If a system is too complicated for a young player to learn, for multiple years even, then it's a shit system. At some point you have to be able to work with what you have. Lou sucks horribly at working with what he has. Jesse and DJ aren't walking through that door.
I threw up in my mouth a little ever time Wilson completed that stupid little check down. He did it all god damned day long, and they didn't adjust to shit. 5 yards here, 6 there, third and extremely manageable all day long. The zone they run either sucks or the players suck at it, because no qb has had trouble finding holes in it. Maybe try something else, Mr "change the picture".
