Golden has ALOT to fix

[SunsetBengal]

(04-07-2025, 06:33 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: Maybe he needed higher IQ players.  If the defense isnt significantly better this year under Golden are we going to claim his defense is too complicated and Golden needs to dumb it down?  Lou had the #25 scoring defense last year and people say the defense should have been much better.  Where do our fans think last years defense should have been ranked?

That's a tough question to answer, honestly. After blowing the opening day game versus the Pats, the defense literally played their asses off against KC, but both of the starting DTs went down with injury. Then a few weeks later, the injuries to the secondary and then Wilson came about. I don't know that last year's defense ever had a fighting chance of being more that what their stats and record shows. I do think that Lou should have made some schematic adjustments sooner, as I feel confident that he realized he was rolling with less than his best players out there.