Bengals Defensive Coordinator Al Golden on Developing Players
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00:00I think player development is again it starts with the head coach, starts with
00:04Zach, starts with the strength staff, starts with nutrition, starts in the
00:08training room, just everybody being on the same page and then just having a
00:13clear plan for them. I think it's really important. I said earlier like I don't
00:17want anything to be gray. I want the guys to be stimulus response defense you know
00:21just you know when you recognize go you know and part of that is just how do we
00:27make it quiet in their minds and we do that in the offseason with
00:31development, with making sure that each player knows the two or three things
00:37that they got to get better at while they're learning the systems and just
00:42really drilling down on that because everybody needs to improve. Everybody
00:46you know started with me you know as soon as they come back and that's what
00:51we're gonna do. We're gonna make sure it's really tight package and make sure
00:55it's it's it's condensed in terms of what they need to improve on and keep it
00:59small. Keep it small, keep it small, refine it, play fast, play with energy and
01:04play together.
01:07I assume that's your approach with draft picks as well regardless of the pick is having a plan, carrying it out, all of those things that you just mentioned from a development standpoint.
01:14Yeah certainly from a development standpoint. We talked about this last
01:18Wednesday just that onboarding you know how good can you get on you know as
01:22onboarding when the rookies come in you know because you know I think the one
01:28thing that we were proud of last year in South Bend was the number of freshmen
01:33that played for us and played significantly and to do that you have to
01:37be great at onboarding you know there has to be a quick transition they have
01:40to know precisely where their eyes need to go in the playbook exactly what
01:45techniques we're teaching and and take the source to them go go right to them
01:50in terms of how they learn best and whether that's on their phone through
01:54video whatever that case may be just make it make it really really accessible
01:59so they can be a continuous learner and I think that's going to start the second
02:03you know we get we get that we make that phone call and we draft somebody