Bengals head coach Zac Taylor's Opening Day quarterback is a rookie and Joe Burrow won't take a snap in a game until the Sept. 13 opener at Paul Brown Stadium against the Chargers.
And Taylor's defense, which could have as many as six new starters on that first snap against what could be another rookie quarterback with absolutely zilch pro film in Los Angeles' Justin Herbert, won't get together for its first walk-through of the year until next week.
But Taylor has always been a half-full guy and the first pandemic in a century won't turn him into a half-empty sort. During Wednesday's first Zoom news conference of training camp he went through the Ayes of August instead of the Nays of Never and the Ayes had it.
"There's a lot of advantages that we're finding right now. Just the way we're going to be able to structure practices and create more scrimmage situations," Taylor said. "You consider in a pre-season game Joe Burrow maybe wouldn't have gotten to play with a couple of guys that you're holding out or don't give many reps to. Whereas you can protect those guys in a scrimmage that you control a little bit better."
The Bengals were one of the worst tackling teams in the league last season, so now they're going to have to do it in practice. It has Taylor thinking about how the college game goes from practice to real games with nothing in between.
"We're going to have to tackle. We're going to have to learn how to take hits and take care of the ball. All those things that will be critical to our success this year," Taylor said. "Quite frankly, we weren't good enough last year in a lot of those areas. Not only was it going to be a point of emphasis this training camp, but now even more so with the lack of pre-season games."
The helmets won't come on for two more weeks, padded practices won't start until about Aug. 17 and Taylor believes that's an advantage, too.
"There isn't that immediate pressure of going outside and executing at full speed like you normally would have. You get this introductory phase, or however you want to phrase it, for almost two weeks before the players are required to put on helmets and go full speed against a defense or an offense," Taylor said. "So in a lot of ways, for young players this a good process for them to follow since they didn't have the offseason.
"It's changed the way we have to approach some of our practices because you've got to do a lot more live tackling to put these guys in situations they're going to be missing out on."
He pointed to his camp experiences with that other team in Los Angeles, Sean McVay's Rams and how they had two fields going. With the social-distancing protocols, he hinted the Bengals could be using some form of double time.
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