Bengals Training Camp News: 4 takeaways from the Cincy’s first padded practice

It’s all fun and games until the hits start.

Not only did the Cincinnati Bengals put on full pads for the first time Tuesday morning, they experienced some rainfall in the process. While being forced to practice outdoors in slippery conditions, giving players exposure to slippery weather, it can sluggish practice. Sloppy practice does not prepare you to win football matches, and sometimes it can make your roster worse. But the lessons always form through one way or another.

We also learn things. Here is what we learned from today’s practice.

Welcome to the league, boy

Shortly afterwards, Joe Burrow went into trouble.

After the sun shone on No. 9 yesterday for God and the local media for the first time, there was an up-and-down day in store for Burrow on Tuesday.

The ups were good. He connected multiple times with receivers Tyler Boyd and Mike Thomas for touchdowns in and out of the red zone. Boyd has unsurprisingly been Burrow’s favorite goalie in practice so far, looking at how successfully he’s been linked with finalist Justin Jefferson at LSU.

The red zone is also where Burrow ran into some problems. Despite injuries that destroyed the defensive line, Burrow was often seen shrinking to avoid would-be sackers under game-like conditions. When the rain fell at its hardest, Burrow also filled a snap. Later, after securing the ball from the snap, a pass from Burrow was deflected out of the air by Sam Hubbard and fell into the hands of Carlos Dunlap.

Everything gets faster as the field gets shorter.

“OK, it was not what you want to see on a red Sunday.” Burrow told reporters after the practice. ‘I feel good getting pads back on, but windows are tighter [than college] and you should be fast on your feet. ”

One day at a time, Burrow will bloom and wrestle, sometimes almost simultaneously. You think he’s nervous about what’s coming?

Recipient revelations

We learned at the beginning of the practice that AJ Green would not be a part of the practice. We learned after practice that Green will not be a part of any exercise this week. Some small tight-knit hamstring will keep Green for Friday’s checks, but it’s not because he can ‘t go as needed, as Zac Taylor pointed out.

Remember: this is not the first week of training camp. Green and Burrow were connected for the better part of two weeks prior to Monday morning. A mild hamstring disease is not the same as an ankle injury that saw Green throw off his helmet in July last year. We will be following the green watch again next week as new developments start to run.

In Green’s place was Auden Tate, with Thomas lying on the other side of the formation just like yesterday. One of the two figures to stay with the starters while Green is out. A more pressing question may be who comes out when Tee Higgins makes his return.

Higgins was seen working with the rest of the receivers in the individual drills, but was kept out of team drills as he continued to work on his own minor hamstring injury.

With Thomas having promotional days back-to-back, it’s worth asking if he’s building a business to stay on the field, despite the statuses of Green, Higgins and John Ross remaining away from the team.

Jonah who is Jonah

Pads that go on tell us more about the locks than we knew before, but even that knowledge does not amount to that much.

Jonah Williams who was good at football had to be hired already.

In the first day of o-line and d-line one-on-one, Williams takes a humble victory, as all reports claim that the first round of last year produced a clean day against the defenders of the starting lines of Bengal.

Where Williams was on this play, well, we would all love to know.

Williams’ backup at the moment seems to be Rookie’s sixth-round Hakeem Adeniji, with Fred Johnson manning the right tackle spot on the second team. How many teams can say their starting quarterback, left tackle, and backup left tackle have a combined zero snack of NFL experience?

It’s a good thing that the last two first-round picks took care of those spots.

Defense sees the part, as usual

Defense that gets the jump when the pads arrive is nothing new. Dunlap not only interpreted the franchise’s new face from a deflection, he also fell back into cover and snagged a rapacious Ryan Finley throw.

Even with a rotation that is still going on at cornerback against William Jackson III, even with Shawn Williams joining Renell Wren as the last player to leave the field through the injury cart, even with linebackers who still learning how to play with each other, gave the defense Burrow and the offense fit.

The loss of Williams may hurt as the back end turns through the entire season, but it’s just another blow that Jackson and the secondary have to face.

We are only a few days away from the first intrasquad contraction of the Bengals, and it would be nice if the choice was kept on the sidelines at least until then.