Bengals Fire DC Lou Anarumo

[Charles Romes]

11 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

I feel like the Bengals are turning into the Philip Rivers Chargers.

Some are saying that about another team. Hopefully that changes over the next few weeks. 

[Rigotz]

I started doing some research, expecting Lou Anarumo to run a different defense from McDermott, which in my opinion would remove him out as a contender for future DC.

 

To my surprise, not only is Lou's defense shockingly similar to McDermott's, he ran base Nickel defense at one of the highest rates in the league this year.

 

We might have a legit contender for DC here....

 

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2024/12/9/24315148/dallas-cowboys-scouting-report-bengals-defensive-scheme-trey-hendrickon-lou-anarumo-zac-taylor#:~:text=Players often hold hybrid roles,too does the overall product.

[Bagwell358]

8 minutes ago, Rigotz said:

I started doing some research, expecting Lou Anarumo to run a different defense from McDermott, which in my opinion would remove him out as a contender for future DC.

 

To my surprise, not only is Lou's defense shockingly similar to McDermott's, he ran base Nickel defense at one of the highest rates in the league this year.

 

We might have a legit contender for DC here....

 

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2024/12/9/24315148/dallas-cowboys-scouting-report-bengals-defensive-scheme-trey-hendrickon-lou-anarumo-zac-taylor#:~:text=Players often hold hybrid roles,too does the overall product.

 

We already have a defensive coordinator on staff. How would this work. 

[Rigotz]

On 1/7/2025 at 9:26 AM, BearNorth said:

Burrow is saying that he wants them to keep Higgins.  Not sure how you have a $45MM QB, pairing that with two $25MM wideouts.  That's 35% of your projected cap for 3 players.  Throw in Hendrickson at $20MM, coupled with one of the least financially sound owners [Mike Brown], not sure how they do this.  Also keeping wideouts into a second high priced contract is looking like a bit of a gamble.

 

Sorry to be that guy but Jefferson and Lamb make $34M and $35M/yr. 

 

Chase is gonna make $35M easy. $25M would be the 11th highest, so maybe that's right for Tee.

 

Hendrickson makes $18M, but is a UFA after next year... so he'll get a huge bump as well. Let's call it $25M.

 

Don't forget about that disgusting Orlando Brown contract that will cost them $15.5M to get out of:

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/25182/orlando-brown-jr

 

I'm not a big "window is closed" guy when you have a Franchise QB, but things will be a lot tougher with $160M tied up in those 5 players. The full cap is $255M.

[Don Otreply]

On 1/6/2025 at 6:27 PM, Low Positive said:

The complaints are actually very similar. Fans complain about soft zone and a lack of in-game adjustments. They also have Ravens and Steelers envy and want an aggressive D that mostly plays man coverage. 

Frazier never ever had a plan “B” that had a hope in hell of working, his soft zone that we still utilize is our Achilles heel, his defensive frame work / thought process was so ridged that adjustments of any kind were not workable within his framework, he failed to adjust to his opponent’s schemes every post season and got fired / let go, or however you want to describe it, because of this. His presence with the Seahawks can be easily described as de minimis.  He a good guy but I’m glad we sent him on his way. 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

23 minutes ago, Charles Romes said:

Some are saying that about another team. Hopefully that changes over the next few weeks. 

The Bills would have to actually miss the playoffs if you’re trying to say the Bills are the Chargers.

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

On 1/6/2025 at 4:51 PM, thenorthremembers said:

They lost their first three games by a total of 10 points and didn't recover.

 

They lost games to the Commanders, the Ravens twice and the Steelers despite scoring at least 33 points in each. The rest of the league went 79-7 this season when scoring at least 33 points. The Bengals went 3-4.

On 1/6/2025 at 5:04 PM, YoloinOhio said:

Mike brown is cheap

 

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/columnists/jason-williams/2025/01/07/nfl-bengals-fire-defensive-coordinator-lou-anarumo-scapegoat-talent-issues/77489794007/

 

Any time the Bengals have to rely heavily on several recent draft picks to carry the load on one side of the ball, well, it’s a reminder that they have six player personnel guys doing the job that the Chiefs, Ravens, Steelers and Bills have around 25-30 staffers responsible for evaluating talent in the draft and free agency.

[Thurman#1]

7 hours ago, Don Otreply said:

Frazier never ever had a plan “B” that had a hope in hell of working, his soft zone that we still utilize is our Achilles heel, his defensive frame work / thought process was so ridged that adjustments of any kind were not workable within his framework, he failed to adjust to his opponent’s schemes every post season and got fired / let go, or however you want to describe it, because of this. His presence with the Seahawks can be easily described as de minimis.  He a good guy but I’m glad we sent him on his way. 

 

 

I wanna describe it the way absolutely everyone who was there described it, then and since. He wanted to go. 

 

 

[Don Otreply]

1 hour ago, Thurman#1 said:

 

 

I wanna describe it the way absolutely everyone who was there described it, then and since. He wanted to go. 

 

 

This may be true, it may also be because the writing was on the wall, just saying,