If the Bengals and Dolphins followed the NFL’s rules regarding the hiring of head coaches
Geno Atkins Jersey , they most likely wouldn’t have hired head coaches on Monday. Because they wouldn’t have had time to negotiate contracts and finalize
arrangements.“No contract shall be executed, and no agreement to execute a
contract . . . shall be permitted until after the conclusion of the employer
club’s playing season,” the league’s anti-tampering policy states. This means
that there can be no offer nor acceptance of terms before an assistant coach’s
season has ended. Which means that, for guys like Zac Taylor and Brian Flores, a
whole lot of things would have had to happen after Sunday night to put the
wheels in motion for what happened Monday.The reality is that teams routinely
ignore the rules
Tyler Eifert Jersey , winking and nodding and otherwise doing a deal without officially doing a deal, allowing for the coach or the team (in theory or, as
happened a year ago, in practice) to pull the plug before pen is put to
paper.The NFL decided not to change the rule in the aftermath of last year’s
Josh McDaniels debacle. The fact that two more teams wandered to the wrong side
of it this year make an official change to the rule even more necessary.There’s
no good reason to keep the current procedure in place, if teams aren’t going to
follow it — and if the league isn’t going to do anything about it. Bengals head
coach Zac Taylor will spend the days leading up to the draft doing his first
on-field work with the team.Teams that hire new coaches are permitted to hold a
three-day minicamp in the first phase of the offseason and the Bengals will hold
theirs from Tuesday to Thursday this week. Taylor said he will be minimizing the
parts of the playbook they’ll work on because “you won’t see the player at his
fastest
Carlos Dunlap Jersey , at his best and thinking sharply” if they’re overloaded with information all at once.While the portion may be small, Taylor expects it
will be positive for the team. They will be doing full team work that they can’t
do in the second phase of the offseason and Taylor expects the tape to be an
effective teaching tool as they move deeper into the offseason.“It’s nice from
that standpoint that we get this three extra days to practice against a defense
and go full-speed and be able to use the three weeks following it to make those
corrections,” Taylor said, via the team’s website. “The guys will have a better
understanding of what we’re taking about, because they’ve done it in a
competitive environment. That’s as opposed to sometimes when you’re on the field
in eleven on zero [during the next phase] and you’re talking through it and get
them to understand blocking schemes
Dre Kirkpatrick Jersey , but they wouldn’t have seen it because no one is lined up across from them. It’s a benefit.”With new players getting drafted
right after minicamp ends, there will be plenty of moving pieces for Taylor to
keep tabs on as they work toward building their first team in Cincinnati.
