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Bengals Defensive Coordinator Al Golden Introduced | Instant Reaction
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1/28/2025
Bengals Defensive Coordinator Al Golden Introduced | Instant Reaction
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It's golden time in Cincinnati. That's right. Al Golden was officially introduced today as Bengals defensive coordinator. He sat right here and
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Talked alongside Zack Taylor for 30 plus minutes
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My reaction my thoughts on what Al and Zack had to say right now on Cincinnati Bengals talk
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You
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Hi again everyone in welcome in to CBT, I'm James Urpeen of Bengals talk.com here at Pacor stadium
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Like I said, Al Golden Zack Taylor they were here at Pacor stadium talking and
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Talk for over 30 minutes. It's
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Audio that you can hear on this feed. It's video that you can watch on YouTube and
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It's time to dive into some of these takeaways
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but let's dive into this because a big reason why the Bengals let go of Luenna rumo was
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their
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Draft plans and who they drafted didn't align at some point
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With the in-season playing development getting the most out of their roster
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Dax Hill talented player Jordan battle talented player Myles Murphy talented player and they either didn't develop enough to get on the field or
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Luenna rumo didn't want to put them on the field or Luenna rumo didn't trust them enough to play on the field all of these
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Things happen and all these different circumstances as to why?
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Well, you got to get more out of your young guys about of your draft picks the guys that you do choose to pick if
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You are picking them
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You got to get more out of them
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and so the player development part was the number one thing to me and I thought Al Golden did a really good job of
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Answering and I'm gonna play a clip of him in just a second and it's a lengthy clip
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but good job of answering that because it's not just
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You have a plan and then you have to pivot quickly
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No, you have a plan for these guys from the moment you draft them or a plan for these guys
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like the Dax Hills Myles Murphy's all these guys that he's going to be coaching that are
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younger or unproven or have a lot to prove or have a lot to do and
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so that's what they're doing this week is they're gonna put together a plan for the existing roster and
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Then you move on to the draft and all of those things free agency
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But that's the the beauty of it is if you're out golden
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You have time now to evaluate who fits who doesn't what you want out of these guys what you don't it's a fresh set of eyes
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But when it comes to development
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it starts
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With developing the way he developed at Notre Dame where he was able to get a lot of freshmen on the field where he's able
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to get a lot of contributors
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That that
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Developed the Xavier Watts kid who a couple of years ago wasn't considered a high draft prospect had 13 interceptions over the past two years
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developed into that and
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Now he's gonna be a day one day to draft pick and a lot of people are gonna mock him to the Bengals because he's
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That rangy safety that can tackle that the Bengals desperately need so without further ado
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Al golden was asked about player development
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And if he his approach can be similar to what it was in the college game at Notre Dame
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To here in the NFL as far as developing players. I think player development is
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Again, it starts with the head coach starts with Zach starts with the strength staff
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Starts with nutrition starts in the training room
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Just everybody being on the same page and then just having a clear plan for them. I think it's really important
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I said earlier like I don't want anything to be gray. I want the guys to be stimulus response defense, you know
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just
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You know when you recognize go, you know, and part of that is just how do we make it quiet in their minds?
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And and and we do that in the offseason with development
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With making sure that each player knows the two or three things that they got to get better at
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while they're learning the systems and
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And just really drilling down on that because everybody needs to improve
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Everybody, you know started with me, you know as soon as they come back and
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And that's what we're gonna do we're gonna make sure it's really tight package and make sure it's it's
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It's condensed in terms of what they need to improve on and keep it small. Keep it small. Keep it small refine it play fast
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play with energy
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And play together
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Yeah, certainly from a development standpoint that um, we talked about this last Wednesday just that onboarding
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You know, how good can you get on, you know as onboarding?
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When the rookies come in, you know, because you know
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I think the one thing that we were proud of last year in South Bend was the number of
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Freshmen that played for us and played significantly and to do that you have to be great at onboarding
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You know, there has to be a quick transition. They have to know precisely where their eyes need to go
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in the playbook exactly what techniques were teaching and
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And take the source to them go go right to them in terms of how they learn best and whether that's on their phone
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Through video whatever that case may be just make it make it really really accessible so they can be a continuous learner
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And I think that's gonna start the second, you know, we get we get that we make that phone call and we draft somebody
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I thought that was huge that that he was
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willing to go in-depth about
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Exactly what his approach is gonna be with these guys from the moment they get that draft call moving forward and that has to be the
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case
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Like I I think of Dax Hill and Zack Taylor sat up here and said, oh well
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Yeah, our rookie isn't gonna play special teams the night
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He was drafted and then he couldn't get on the field as a rookie
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They weren't getting him on the field as a rookie, even though he's super talented
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I know there are people in this building that think he's really talented but wasn't on the field that can't happen
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You have to have the visions aligned
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when you're taking someone whether it's in the first round or the fifth round the plan for them has to align and I don't think
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It did all the way at times here in Cincinnati
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And so whether it's that another thing Al Golden did and by the way enter the jungle tomorrow night 8 Eastern Tuesday
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I go one-on-one with Al Golden. I probably should have mentioned that at the top
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I will talk one-on-one with Al Golden. You'll hear me ask about developing players about some of his
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Mindset and mentality the the transition process from Notre Dame to here how quickly it is as
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He sat up here. I was thinking like man a week ago
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You were getting ready to coach in the national championship game. What a difference a week makes boom just like that things change
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Other things that stand out about what Al Golden had to say
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He talked about the flexibility about how he runs a 4-3
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sometimes a 4-2 and
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Is happy to be flexible doesn't like to back his way into a corner and put himself into a corner
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That this is how it has to be and I think that is really important
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Now this idea that he's gonna come here and do exactly what he did at Notre Dame. I think that's pretty unrealistic
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I think he doesn't think that either and
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That's a good thing because you're only gonna play so much man-to-man anyways in the NFL. So to me
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Whether it's adaptability whether it's the fundamental stuff
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how many times did we talk about tackles and miss tackles and doing basic things hit all of that he touched on all of that and
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That's what you want now, does it need to be executed? Absolutely. Do they need to find the right guys? Absolutely
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I and I did talk to him. I think my favorite part of my one-on-one interview with Al is
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what
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It could mean for the Bengals that he spent the past three years at Notre Dame
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And it's it's really good stuff there because he kind of pulls back the curtain a little bit on on how it could help realistically
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moving forward in their evaluation process all offseason and into the draft, so
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Look, I've said this a few times. I
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Think he's a good football coach. Anytime your favorite team gets a good football coach. You should be happy
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I know there are questions about the process and all those things. I'm not sure it's going to work
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But what I do know is
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From an approach standpoint feels like he fits
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I think you can ask anyone at Notre Dame if you want if he's a good football coach or not, too
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He clearly had some skins on the wall here
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But it's not like Zack Taylor was just gonna hire out golden because it's his buddy who I coach with them before
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Why would you do that? There's a reason you fired Lou you have to get this, right and
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It's it's introductory press conference day, but everything that Al said
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made sense and appeared to align with what the Bengals were looking for and
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That makes sense. Now, what are they looking for? They're looking for someone that's gonna develop young guys
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They're looking for someone that's gonna get guys ready to go and hit the ground running
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Al talked about he has a
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10 a 10 part installation process likes to throw a lot at guys in the spring so they can recall it in
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Training camp when you're really grinding he talked about playing fast. I want to play fast
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You want to empower these guys to play fast, which they weren't doing until December. We have multiple accounts of that
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Oh, we're playing faster. All right. I need you to play fast week one against the Patriots
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Not week 14. Not when the season's over after you lost at the Steelers in week 13. You can't do it
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you gotta play fast before that and
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Hopefully he can get that out of them. The other thing that I thought was really
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it
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Really good and I think would have played well with any players that were watching or have watched by the way if you're a Bengals
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Player watching you could check out Al Golden's press conference
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We posted the entire thing right here on Cincinnati Bengals talk audio or the video
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but the the thing of
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Empowering these guys to make different checks make different calls
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I think that's really important to especially at the NFL level, but I Notre Dame he did that and it's going to happen here
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and
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what it is is it builds a trust and it builds a rapport and
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If you can do that if you can find the right guys
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And I think it would go a long way one other thing that he mentioned at the beginning that I thought was really interesting
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Was I remember a few years ago and was like, oh, this is the captain's draft
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2020 was the captain's draft all these guys besides T Higgins who came out early were captains
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He would have been a captain had he stayed at Clemson. Oh
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The captain's draft well, I was here for that I
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was part of the
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Logan Wilson Hakeem Davis Gaither Marcus Bailey draft
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I
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was part of the
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Find the right character guys that are going to be able to do all the things that you want them to do and they also have
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the physical gifts
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Maybe the Bengals need to get back to that a little bit and that was something he hit on early in his 30 plus minute
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News conference as well. Make sure you check out that entire thing
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It is worth your time and I think that
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It's probably going to tell you something about the Bengals new defensive coordinator good bad ugly
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you be the judge, but I would say that overall that you're
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You're going to be pleased there
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Also before we go the Bengals did introduce a new linebackers coach today
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Mike Hodges spent the past six seasons in New Orleans has been their linebackers coach since 2020 and
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So there you go a new addition to Zach Taylor's coaching staff to Al Golden's defensive staff Chuck Burks is
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Staying on as cornerbacks coach Jordan Kovacs is staying on a safeties coach and they officially introduced Jerry Montgomery
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Who is their defensive line coach and run game coordinator for the defense?
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So the staff the coaching staff is taking shape
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Make sure you hit that subscribe button on YouTube follow wherever you get your podcasts for Andrew Fox Miller. I'm James Ruppin
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Thank you so much for watching and listening to Cincinnati Bengals talk
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