Yesterday, 11:32 PM
(01-11-2025, 04:18 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: There was no reason to fire Lou.. the personnel sucked and he got them to play well to finish with a winning record...
it was cowardice for Zac to fire Lou. The offense lost as many chances as the defense to score/win, even Burrow has highlighted this.
I like Zac overall, but firing Lou with the personnel Lou havd, to accommodate the offense, is just unjust and weak. If anything Zac failed miserably running the offense and failed to win more games where the real $$$ is invested. Lou the scapegoat. Lou even came to Cinci when nobody wanted to.. very disgraceful to let him go. Good luck next season with same or worse personnel and a new system.. YIKES!
PS. The only reason we went to the SB was because of the defense and Lou, with talented personnel.
Lou came to Cincinnati to get a promotion when the five guys (actual DCs) who were sought after prior to him refused. When Lou got here his defense was historically bad in 2019. Lou's defense wasn't much better in 2020. Lou alienated vets and failed to develop young players. Lou was handed a pretty high payroll for the rest of his tenure in Cincinnati. Lou managed to have a solid defense in 2022. Lou's defense sucked in 2023, and sucked even more in 2024. Lou is not a scapegoat. Lou is a career DB coach who should've never been hired as DC and should have been canned in January of 2020. Lou will never get another DC job in the NFL.
Poo Dey
