05-14-2019, 10:40 AM
(05-13-2019, 04:50 PM)PAjwPhilly Wrote: Lou Anarumo is the defensive coordinator (for those that never picked up his name). He has 4-3 experience (Kevin Coyle assistant/ Miami). And he has 3-4 experience (James Bettcher assistant/ Giants). Supposedly Coyle's 4-3 has some similarities with Zimmer's 4-3 once ran here in Cincinnati: Double A-gap blitz and pressing corner backs. And he wants to incorporate some of his 3-4 stuff into our defense as well.
I'd say that our defensive unit is... Average secondary, below average LBs, above average defensive line.
So... how do you make this work?
I feel that last year we ran passive defenses too often. We didn't seem to do anything creative. It always seemed like we rushed 4 and dropped our LBs into coverage. But I only get to watch the game once (Sunday Ticket). I remember a post game comment where Carlos mentioned... you can't just do the same thing all the time and expect something to change.
I am under the impression that if you can't hold coverage for 4, 5, or 6 seconds you need to blitz hard and play underneath. But I never saw that from us last year. I rarely ever see a D-line shift late in the snap count, even D-line twists, or bringing multiple blitzes from the same area (all of which I would label creative for us).
How do you go about using our 2019 unit to be the best it can be?
https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-defense-now-skipping-to-lou
Well as you said, have to be much more aggressive and creative on Defense then we were last year for one. The Linebackers need to be in position to stop those dumpoffs that plagued us last year. It was unfair to the D-line how bad the LB's played, the DL would rush the passer and work their ass off only for the LB's to be in the wrong positions chasing down plays from behind which continually resulted in first downs.
It was frustrating, it was also unfair to our Corners asking them to play that soft zone cushion crap.
I think if we just play more aggressive man to man and our LB's clean up dump offs and screens we will be back to being a legit Defense. As you say, we have the D-line and i believe we have good to very good Safeties, Bates is a stud.
