Lou anarumo on Bengals' defensive tackle room

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00:00 You'd always rather go with hey, here's what I see they've done it at this level, you know DJ

00:06 Is a hard guy to replace

00:10 Hopefully we don't have to but he is

00:13 He's such a great

00:16 locker room guy to start with

00:18 And then just what he does inside

00:21 in the interior of the defense

00:25 He just controls blocks. It's a lot of things that people don't see you can't look at DJ reader in that position and say let

00:31 Me look at his numbers

00:32 Even though he has you know good numbers for the position

00:35 he is just dominant when it comes on to taking on blocks taking on double teams and not getting moved and

00:41 That allows other people to make plays and when you don't have that it creates other issues how complex

00:48 Complicated is that situation with DJ given the injury?

00:53 You know, I know he's another guy that's been in there every day working hard and you know, I don't know the exact timeline yet, but

01:00 I'll let the let Duke and his crew work that out and hopefully it works out good for us as you start going through the

01:07 process some of the draft the kids defensive tackle in particular is

01:11 When you're in this division what you need is size one of the top of the kind of non-negotiable

01:17 Or power at least inside there for you

01:19 Because you see a lot of these undersized guys you can maybe sell it but is that well

01:24 It's a good question because you know, like when we watch that when I watch the free agents

01:29 That are in the league now. I

01:31 Hope and pray that they've played against our division because I'll go right to the Baltimore tape

01:35 I'll go right to this Cleveland tape right to the Pittsburgh tape because when they're playing that those group of teams

01:42 It's a little bit different than a lot of the other teams in our league where these guys are roaring off the ball double teams

01:48 big people and trying to knock you to next week, so

01:51 If you can't anchor in there and you can't if you're going to get moved and you're going to try to swim around blocks that

01:57 that creates

01:58 Again different issues for us on defense. So

02:01 Yeah, it's a it's a little bit different in the AFC North