05-16-2019, 10:36 AM
(05-15-2019, 07:23 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Quite interesting though that Belicheck saw teams with lighter, quicker LB's and went power football on them. So yeah, these new trends can be countered.
I've often felt that our defense, from a LB perspective was built to play in the AFC North 20 years ago. Seems, we favor the slower, bigger LB in general. Not coincidentally, pass coverage for our LB's has been bad...for well a long time.
When was the actual last time we had LB's who could cover? Maybe Spikes?
The New Defensive Co-ordinator (Lou Anarumo) worked under Kevin Coyle who worked under Zimmer.
Zimmer's defenses in Minnesota seem to be very effective in today's NFL and Lou may try to model after what Zimmer does.
The Bengals don't have a top of the 1st round talent like Anthony Barr though but some of the other Viking linebackers like Eric Kendricks are not the fastest guys around.
Pratt may offer some newer school coverage ability and the Coaching change back to Lou being from the Zimmer tree could help.
Last season saw the Teryl Austin vision for a good portion of the season and then a number of platoon linebackers filling in due to injuries.
A healthy linebacker Unit in 2019 could surprise to the upside if Lou is on point.
