In his first comments since the end of last season, head coach Zac Taylor sat down this week for a conversation with Bengals.com's Geoff Hobson before his coaching staff leaves Sunday for Mobile, Ala., to work the Jan. 25 Senior Bowl (2:30 p.m.-NFL Network) coaching the South. He's impressed with LSU quarterback Joe Burrow and hopes he at least visits with the team during the week. Plus, he sees a need for defense early in the draft, free-agency is being discussed as an off-season option and he doesn't think Nebraska's Zac Taylor could line up with the South quarterbacks.
You're back at work now not only filling coaching jobs but installing practices for next week's Senior Bowl, where you coach the South.
Normally when we look at guys, we just watch the game tape and maybe get a chance to work them in T-shirt and shorts at their home field. When you get a chance to coach them at an all-star game like the Senior Bowl, you actually get a chance to see them in meeting rooms and how they really act and get an up close look at what their mentality is on the field and in person and how they respond to coaching and installing. It's a unique experience that only two of the 32 NFL staffs get to do and we're happy to do it.
You're going to use your playbook, right? Watered down, but your playbook?
The regulations are such that you can't do very much. You can only be in two by two formations, you can't shift in motion. It really limits you. You can be in 11, 12 or 21 (formations). It's just the defenses are regulated to what they can play to different personnel groupings. You can only be in certain formations.
Does that affect how you evaluate quarterbacks?
You still see these guys learn and throw in person. It doesn't affect how you do that. Obviously the schemes on defense are going to be very simple. But you get to see all the fundamentals you want to see. You're going to go work these guys out in pro days or see them at the combine. This is just one more opportunity to get a chance to see them live.
Everyone is raving about LSU quarterback Joe Burrow and rightfully so the way he capped off his great season on Monday night with a national title.
We've started the process of evaluating him. We certainly have a long way to go before making decisions on what we're doing with the first pick. That's been exciting. We're not preparing for an opponent, so we have a chance to jump into the actual film work for all the position groups.
As a guy who played the position in college, you're looking at a guy in Burrow that probably had the best season any college quarterback ever had.
It was impressive. There's no doubt. I'd like to make sure we're a little more thorough on our film evaluation with a lot of guys before we start making statements on players. But certainly he had an impressive year.
Did you watch the national championship game?
I did. It was a great game. The only game on TV that night. Our season is finally over, so you get a chance to relax and watch two great teams.
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