Who's your breakout player this year?

[kevin]

(Yesterday, 04:03 PM)Lucius Cincinnatus Wrote: What specifially about Golden's defense makes Ossai fit better than Lou's?

I'll jump in to say I have a break out coach, not a player.  Coach Taylor has said all along that he likes 5 or 6 DB's on the field 80 % of the game.  Golden on the other hand says he may use 3 to 4 linebackers on the field during games.   Since Bengals have been just awful on defense last 2 seasons, I'm interested to see what Golden coming over from top job at Notre Dame has in mind.  It sounds like instead of sitting back in nickel and dime prevent as Bengals have done under Taylor, Golden has no plans of sitting back in the prevent all game.  Basketball coach Bobby Knight view of football was the only thing the prevent defense prevents is it prevents your team from winning. He was not a fan of it, and it sounds like Golden defense of 3 and sometimes 4 linebackers is going to be different from anything Bengals Fans have seen in a long time.  

If 3 or 4 linebackers works for Golden, we will see a Bengals defense that smothers all the plays in front of the front 7.  The 1981 Bengals showed you can mix up blitzes out of this, never the same blitz person twice in a row.  You can get after the QB and RB's pretty good.   So the Break Out Player could be hiring Golden away from Notre Dame to run this defense, and he has a whole different defense plan that what Bengals Fans have been seeing.  Not as passive and not sitting back in the Nickle and Dime prevent all game as Taylor likes.  I'm all for Taylor sticking to offense, and let Golden from Notre Dame do the defense.