- Willie Anderson, the greatest right tackle in Bengals history, returned to his hometown Wednesday to visit his old team. Although there are no coaches left from his dominating 12-season run from 1996-2007, he hooked up with Tobin and was hoping to get a chance to say hello to Bengals president Mike Brown and family.
"All that's left are the personnel people," said Anderson, who was already an offensive line guru when he played and remains so on Twitter and in the gym with the Willie Anderson Academy.
On the sidelines Wednesday he hooked up with Bengals radio analyst Dave Lapham, who called all of Anderson's 181 games in stripes and they started comparing notes. He also ran into former Bengals offensive line coach Paul Alexander, his line coach for all those games, while he was doing work for Sirius NFL Radio.
Lapham talked about how Anderson was one of those rare lineman who could see the entire picture while on the field. Anderson regaled with a story how he destroyed end-tackle stunts by deploying the monstrous blocks of right guard Bobbie Williams while he coaxed the young tandem of left tackle Levi Jones and left guard Eric Steinbach to be alert.
How did it work in 2004-05? Rudi Johnson set the Bengals single-season rushing record twice while Chad Johnson and Carson Palmer set the franchise bests for receiving and passing, respectively.
Anderson prefers to work with high school players, but he's got a keen eye for the kids trying to get into the league down here and he's looking at the gigantic Taylor.
"(Looking at) one-on-one pass blocks, the run periods, the South Carolina State kid is pretty impressive, 6-8, 6-9," Anderson said. "The big thing is can he just stay on bull rushes. He's a long, tall guy who showed good power skills in the run game. He's a tough guy, he can get great leverage. His pass pro is really pretty good."
It looks like Taylor is going to be improving his stock, which before this week Walter Football had in the rounds three to five range. But with Tobin so high on the Bengals' young tackles, he'd have to clearly be the highest graded player on the board when the Bengals were looking at him and other tackles.
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