Cincinnati Bengals Defensive Coordinator Al Golden on State of Defense in Minicamp

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00:00How would you proceed adding a veteran's safety?

00:02Are you pretty good with the safety room?

00:03Yeah, again, I don't, I mean, we have a great personnel department.

00:06We relied on them heavily for the three picks that we had on defense.

00:09We hit on all of them.

00:11And I feel like they do it way better than we do it

00:15in terms of the marriage between needs and, you know,

00:23things that are open right now.

00:24And then also, you know, looking at it from the standpoint of a cap.

00:31So if there's opportunities to make our team better,

00:35I know they're going to do that.

00:36They did that when I was here last time.

00:38And I really think whether it was waivers with Joe Bozzi last time I was here

00:42or we went out and got Clay Johnston and Keiondre Jones

00:46and all those guys that played linebacker,

00:47that ended up being a really good group because of what they did upstairs.

00:51Are you moving those corners around to cross-train them

00:53or can you do that in the season?

00:56Yeah, we'll see.

00:57We'll see where it goes.

00:58It's a little bit early for that.

00:59But I think, you know, they show they, again,

01:02it's one thing to be smart and it's one thing to love football.

01:05But to love the approach and the process the way they do,

01:09that's what's been awesome every day.

01:10And that's what motivates us as coaches to be better every day.

01:13So I think those guys' approach is like give me more,

01:16let me do more things, let me play corner, let me play safety,

01:18let me play nickel, let me play dime.

01:20And so they're telling us by their actions that they can receive the information,

01:29digest it from multiple positions,

01:32and obviously ultimately that's going to make us better.

01:34You've obviously seen the training camp practices in the afternoon.

01:37You've experienced that.

01:38Morning this year is different.

01:39What went into that from your perspective?

01:41Do you think it's going to have an impact?

01:42No, coach had a plan.

01:44You know, at the end of last year, you know, prior to my involvement at all,

01:48coach had a plan for what he wanted it to look like both in the offseason

01:52and then preseason camp.

01:54And our job is to execute that plan and make it the best plan possible.

01:57And he gives us that form as coordinators and as a staff.

02:01So obviously we've contributed to that.

02:05But I think he's got a really, you know,

02:07great plan in terms of how we want to approach training camp

02:10with ultimate goal of being starting fast.

02:13What have you seen from Logan Wilson?

02:15Again, I watched – when I got here, I watched last year.

02:19He was hobbled a little bit.

02:21I went back and watched last year's OTAs,

02:23and he looks nothing like either of those right now.

02:27He looks excellent.

02:28I think he's going to be 29 soon.

02:31So I think he's taking care of himself really well.

02:33He's been playing fast.

02:35I see an energy about him right now that's been really good,

02:40and the linebackers are feeding off that.

02:42So I'm excited about him, and I'm obviously grateful to be reunited with him.

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