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CINCINNATI (AP) — Zac Taylor got up early Tuesday and headed to Paul Brown Stadium for his first meeting with his new team A.J. Green Jersey , one that was watching closely to see how the 35-year-old coach would handle himself.At precisely 8 a.m., he stepped into the meeting room, which had been full of chatter but quickly went silent.“It felt like game day, to be honest,” Taylor said.The Cincinnati Bengals gathered for the first time under Taylor on Tuesday, the start of voluntary offseason workouts. They got a feel for how the new coach will operate, received new playbooks, and officially started a different phase in franchise history.“Like the first day of school, man Michael Jordan Cincinnati Bengals Jersey ,” receiver A.J. Green said.After 16 seasons of failing to get a playoff win under Marvin Lewis, the Bengals joined the NFL’s youth movement by hiring Taylor, who has brought aboard a youthful coaching staff. They’ve balanced that by essentially keeping their roster intact coming off a 6-10 season that left them last in the AFC North and led to Lewis’ firing.Volatile linebacker Vontaze Burfict was released, but the Bengals have spent much of their salary cap room re-signing veterans who were unrestricted free agents.For now, it’s more about getting accustomed to this coaching staff, and yet again learning new systems on offense and defense.“A lot of curiosity about how things are going to go,” tight end Tyler Eifert said. “It’s the unknown.”Although Taylor had met with players individually, Tuesday was the first time he could hand out playbooks and begin installing his systems. It’ll be the third different system in three years for both the offense and defense, which presents a challenge. Players prefer to get comfortable in a system; it’s been nonstop re-adapting in Cincinnati.“I’m trying to get it as quickly as I can so I can learn it and get to the point in other systems I’ve been in Michael Jordan Jersey 2019 ,” quarterback Andy Dalton said. “That’s just where we’re at right now.”Taylor is getting used to what it’s like to be a head coach.He walked onto the field at the stadium over the weekend, ruminating about what it will be like to coach there soon enough. The Bengals open their preseason with games at Kansas City and Washington before playing at home against the Giants and Colts.“There’s been a lot of work to do these last couple weeks, but now to finally get the players in the building, it’s real,” Taylor said. “I walked out on the field yesterday really for one of the first times. You look around the stadium and get a sense that this is coming at us, and I’m excited about it.”One of the biggest adjustments for Dalton and some others is working with a coaching staff that’s roughly the same age.“To be only a couple years younger than a lot of these guys — it’s different,” said Dalton, 31. “Our kids are all the same age. It’s different, but I think it’s also fun.” Free agency and the league meetings have been the focus for the last couple of weeks Color Rush Michael Jordan Jersey , but we’ll move into another stage of the offseason this week.Teams that hired a new head coach this year are permitted to start their offseason programs on April 1 and half of the teams that made coaching changes will be getting underway this week. The Browns, Buccaneers and Dolphins are set to resume work on Monday while the Broncos set April 2 as their start date. Attendance at this stage of the offseason is voluntary.The Jets, Cardinals, Bengals and Packers will wait a week, which allows them to run their offseason program without a break. The other teams must take a week off at some point before the end of the offseason. The other 24 teams can start their offseason workouts on April 15.Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens and some players are expected to speak to reporters on Monday. Should wide receiver Odell Beckham be among them, it’s a safe bet that plenty of reporters will be waiting to see how dangerous he feels on his first day of work with his new team.作者: christian398 時間: 2023-1-1 08:12