Golden has ALOT to fix

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(04-02-2025, 10:42 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Lou's defense carried us in the 2021 playoffs. It was a bad defense during the regular season.

2022 is the 1 year out of 6 that I mentioned.

The Bengals spent more money on Lou's defense bringing in outside FAs than they did on FAs in the entire rest of Bengals outside FA history COMBINED. We were among the top cap spenders on defense in the entire NFL for most of Lou's time here.

Exactly. Lou's defense did not lack for resources. Unfortunately his alignments and calls were too complex for less experienced players to pick up and the combination of Hubbard and Bell hitting the physical wall at the same time didn't help. He needed to simplify the defense a LOT sooner than he did. He also needed to turn players loose to attack a lot sooner than he did. 

We'll have to see Golden's system but supposedly a strength of his is adapting to his players and also developing players.