Cincinnati Bengals Head Coach Zac Taylor on Jermaine Burton Ahead of Game vs Ravens

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00:00Is the expectation that Jermaine will practice this week

00:03and play on Thursday?

00:04Yeah, that's where we're going to push him towards.

00:06Back to Jermaine, your theme is figuring it out.

00:09What are the resources you guys have here

00:11to help any young player who's figuring it out?

00:14Tremendous resources.

00:15And I would say that we go above and beyond to make sure

00:17everyone's put in the best situation.

00:19And I won't get into what that all looks like,

00:24and you'll just have to take my word for it,

00:26we go above and beyond to make sure everyone's

00:28in the best place possible to succeed,

00:30and we're going to continue to do that.

00:32I know the word accountability has come up

00:33throughout the season in terms of the coaching staff,

00:36but what about in handling players?

00:39What about the accountability field

00:41the players have for each other in the locker room?

00:44How would you characterize it?

00:46It's important.

00:48I think that's, I don't know what word to use best,

00:50but it's important that you can count on your teammates,

00:54that the players can count on us,

00:55and we can count on the players.

00:57Again, everyone's coming in this league

00:59and has got things they've got to continue to work through.

01:02It takes everyone to bring them along.

01:04And so I'm excited to watch how that process unfolds,

01:06and everyone's on board and willing to get the best out

01:10of every player we've got in the locker room.

01:12I guess a better way to ask the question is.

01:13I can't wait, because I appreciate that.

01:15You feel there are enough voices, strong voices,

01:20in the locker room to get the message across.

01:22I do.

01:23I think, I won't get into specific position groups,

01:27but I think there's a lot of good guys

01:29that are willing to help.

01:31And regardless of the situation with any player,

01:35always gotten really good feedback

01:36where people are understanding and want

01:38what's best for the team.

01:39As a head coach, how do you learn to discern

01:42when you get to the root of any kind of issue

01:44with a player all the time?

01:45Are you really at the heart of it?

01:46What's the hardest part of trying to discern exactly

01:50what the issue is with anybody?

01:52Everything's different.

01:53It's no two people are the same.

01:55It's always unique situations that you

01:57try to assess as best you can.

01:59And I won't list them all, but everyone's unique,

02:03and you've got to handle them all differently,

02:05and find the best way to solve the problem.

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