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Bengals Training Camp Day 2
GEORGETOWN, Ky. — The Bengals were in shoulder pads during practice Saturday morning and it didn’t take long for the contact to begin. The defense delivered their share of Hard Knocks to the offense and the unit had a good overall performance on Day 2 of training camp.
Puttin’ on the hits
Right off the bat, safety Tom Nelson exploded into cornerback Leon Hall during tackling drills and dislodged Hall’s mouthpiece sending it flying through the air about 10-yards when it landed.
Then you had defensive end Jonathan Fanene busting though the offensive line during run drills and delivering a blow with his paw to the upper chest of running back Kenny Watson stopping him in his tracks. The play caught the crowd’s attention.
Fanene also showed incredible strength by powering through blocks at the line of scrimmage to put pressure on quarterback Carson Palmer for a would-be sack. Fanene is a very soft spoken guy off the field, but if I were in a bar fight he would be the guy I want by my side.
The same could be said for rookie linebacker Rey Maualuga. This guy is a very intense player. The coaching staff had to reel him in a bit on a couple of plays as if to say don’t hurt anyone just yet. Apparently, Maualuga was a little too aggressive in drills.
I don’t know what other teams saw that made them pass on Maualuga in the draft, but so far the Bengals appear to have themselves a real steal. Maualuga has been flying around the field getting in on the plays and he knows how to finish once he arrives.
Dynamic Duo
Chris Crocker and Roy Williams are penciled in as the starting safeties, but I’m not sure that Williams and Chinedum Ndukwe wouldn’t make a better tandem in the secondary. Both players have been making plays. Ndukwe made it two days in a row with an interception while Williams recorded a tackle-for-loss, sack, and pass break-up after delivering a shot to rookie tight end Chase Coffman who couldn’t hang on to the ball.
Team news: The Bengals and Georgetown (Ky.) College have agreed on a one-year extension of the team’s contract to hold training camp at the college’s East Campus Athletic Complex. The agreement now runs through 2010.
Keep checking Big C’s NFL Blitz for updates on the Bengals training camp throughout the weekend.
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By g00dhumorman
August 1, 2009 4:03 PM | Link to this
andre smith needs to get signed and at camp. he is missing valuable time on practice field.
By Tom Archdeacon
August 1, 2009 4:09 PM | Link to this
I don’t care about football, I like other kinds of balls, those kind of balls that I can lick … till it gets really hard. Send me an email if you have a stiff one. Yours truly, Tom Archdeacon
By nyc
August 1, 2009 6:42 PM | Link to this
i have quite not figured out why the bungals bother with a training camp…it just makes it more embarassing…that they actually train to lose each year…discontinue the camp..so they will have an excuse for their miserable season…makes sense to me….