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Bengals OL Ted Karras said there won’t be a ton of changes to the unit’s pass protection assignments under new OL coach Scott Peters, but is hoping to generate more one-on-one wins.
“Maybe to the nuanced eye,” Karras said, via the team’s website. “Hopefully, it translates to more one-on-one wins.”
Peters said the team is using OTA’s to rebuild fundamentals and make sure they have their technique perfected before building to the next stage of development.
“It’s not easy to start from zero,” Peters said. “Some of the techniques are new, it’s not just go out there and throw your hands out there. It’s how you do it, from what platform, from what foundation your body operates from so your strikes are impactful and you are doing it without having to compromise posture. Guys will throw heavy hands and get beat and wiped and stuff. It is teaching them a foundation of how you throw a proper strike. You throw a proper strike and do it with good mechanics and ramp up the speed it looks like you have more pop in your hands, you have more length, you can play with better posture so if they did wipe your hands or knock you hands down you wont’ be staggering forward and get beat.”
Active hands is something that Peters has been preaching to the unit since he entered the building.
“You want to be able to confidently throw hands,” Peters said. “Some guys don’t throw hands because they are nervous about getting wiped. It’s like a boxer going into the ring and not throwing a punch because he doesn’t want to get hit. You are going to have to throw. We know what they are going to try to do. We want to try to build them a way to respond as part of an automatic response.”
Bengals OL Cordell Volson opted to remain in Cincinnati because of what he feels Peters can do to help propel his career.
“Scott is a really open guy,” Volson said, who accepted a pay cut rather than a release because he says he believed in what Peters could do for his career after being benched last season. “You can bounce ideas off him and ask him questions. We can play more toward our skill set. He instills a lot of confidence in us. I think he brings a good energy. We enjoy talking to him. We enjoy going into meetings with him. I think that’s really cool. It definitely makes my day way more enjoyable, that’s for sure.”
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