Zac Taylor on Bengals' rookie class
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00:00 Do you feel like you've seen what you hope to see--
00:02 this might be a hard question to answer--
00:04 but hope to see from this--
00:05 what we've lost this year?
00:06 I know there's one more game left.
00:07 It's more of a general question, not specific.
00:09 Yeah.
00:11 That's a hard one to answer.
00:12 You've got to reflect on the season.
00:13 I'm not in reflective mode yet.
00:16 I think what this group has shown is a lot of potential,
00:19 a lot of eagerness, a lot of potential.
00:21 A lot of the things that we were hoping to get
00:23 when we drafted them, we've seen it.
00:25 And you don't look at a single guy in this class and say,
00:29 man, we might have missed there.
00:31 You don't feel that.
00:32 So again, we've got another game to play,
00:34 and we're expecting those guys to step up big.
00:36 We talked to those guys at the halfway point of the year
00:38 that their roles, as injuries come and the season goes,
00:42 your roles are only going to continue to get bigger.
00:44 And we're at a point where some of those guys' roles
00:46 are pretty big right now.
00:47 And we expect their best in Week 18.
00:49 What have you learned about Chase Brown
00:50 since he came back from IR?
00:54 Learn?
00:55 I mean, we knew he had great speed.
00:57 We've seen that.
00:58 Again, able to handle a little bit more,
01:01 just as his rookie year has gone on.
01:04 Nothing we didn't see earlier.
01:05 It was just-- that was kind of a tricky room and training camp,
01:10 because Travion was hurt.
01:12 Chase was a rookie.
01:14 So you were kind of trying to get your feel for who's
01:16 going to be able to protect, who's
01:18 going to be first, second down, as a compliment to Joe.
01:21 And so again, as his role has continued to increase,
01:25 he's done a great job handling that responsibility
01:28 and making plays for us when we need them.