Right after flirting with a handful of former NFL head coaches for their defensive coordinator vacancy, the Cincinnati Bengals have termed on a former colleague of their possess head coach, Zac Taylor, to fill the job.
As ESPN’s Dianna Russini documented Thursday, the Bengals have hired Lou Anarumo to operate their defense. The 52-year-aged assistant, who spent 2018 as the New York Giants‘ defensive backs coach, labored along with Taylor with the Miami Dolphins from 2012-15.
On Cincy’s hire of Taylor, a range of proven coordinators, such as Dom Capers, Dennis Allen, Jack Del Rio and Vance Joseph, ended up speculated as favorites to substitute Teryl Austin. But each and every of them either uncovered other positions or reportedly turned down the Bengals’ improvements. So Anarumo, the team’s third defensive coordinator in as many many years, will be tasked with turning about a device that concluded final in the NFL in yards authorized for each activity in 2018.
Anarumo started his coaching vocation at Wagner College or university in 1989 and has coached the secondary considering that 1990. A former graduate assistant with Syracuse, he initially became a defensive coordinator for Division III U.S. Service provider Maritime Academy in 1992, then served as assistant head coach at Harvard from 1995-2000. Subsequent two much more higher education stops, at Purdue and Marshall, Anarumo made his NFL coaching debut in 2012 as the Dolphins’ defensive backs coach, a title he held as a result of 2017. The New York native also held interim defensive coordinator responsibilities in Miami in the course of the 2015 season.
