Dylan Fairchild

This unit now is in its second year together.

You don't have a rookie guy on the line in Dylan Fairchild.

He's now in his second year.

So there's just...

And I think that's what you've seen from Peters.

It's hard to argue with what we've seen with – dylan fairchild who he pinpointed and bringing in reisner and helping him get acclimated i think those are big time feathers in his caps and we'll see what happens with the current guys i mean even just jacob bear coming in as a guy who was kicked to the curb by buffalo and looking really good and figuring things out he's got his thing he's the strike system guy he's the mma guy he's got this style guys can take to it and it really does help them and they feel like they're learning something he seems to have a pretty positive vibe and a room full of good dudes um all of that pays off now you need to see that over time but uh yeah i there was a time this time last year where there was a lot of people looking around wondering about scott peters i can tell you that for a fact because it looked bad early the linemen were confused they didn't like what they were doing And they kind of had to restructure a lot of stuff on the fly.

But what happened, and Mims taking the next step has been part of this too, what happened over the course of the season was guys got better They figured it out, and they really hit the ground running this year, and I think they feel great about where they're at.

But so much of that goes back to developing these middle guys and pulling guys in off the street and finding ways to get a little bit more out of them, all of that.

transplanted to LA here a couple weeks ago at 2 30 a.m on a Friday I found myself in a hospital bed on the wrong end of a catheter line intended to bring sweet relief to a bladder refusing to wake up after surgery at the other end of the catheter line was a very nice nurse who was also very not unattractive Wanting desperately to ensure the procedure went smoothly, I tried to think of anything that would keep me calm, focused, and help move the chains.

So I began reciting the Bengals' offensive line out loud like a prayer.

Orlando Brown Jr., Dylan Fairchild, Ted Karras, Dalton Reisner, Marius Mims.

It worked.

I'm pretty sure Orlando Brown Jr. is a contract they can get out of pretty quick.

But Dylan Fairchild, I thought, looked much improved there at left guard.

Ted Karras, plus they drafted a center this year in Connor Liu.

And then that leaves you with who at right guard? Dalton Reisner, who, yeah, career kind of journeyman.

It felt like he was awesome this last week.

So damn, I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Part of me kind of does want to just go Caden Green, and in this place we would say, hey, Dylan Fairchild, congratulations, you're going to right guard.

Fairchild, or sorry, Caden Green, you're going to play left guard until you move on from Orlando Brown Jr.

I mean, he shut down Reuben Bain last week.

Dylan Fairchild's starting to play well.

I think it's going to be a really interesting and fun matchup, and everybody thinks the Texans are going to dominate them.

I don't think they are.

I mean, he shut down Reuben Bain last week.

Dylan Fairchild starting to play well.

I think it's going to be a really interesting and fun matchup.

And I everybody thinks the Texans are going to dominate them.

And listen, man, the Bengals had a good week one outing.

I mean, Dylan Fairchild, he gave up three pressures, no sacks under a day, three hurries at the left guard spot.

So maybe you look at Houston looking to maybe isolate him or, again, take advantage of their one-on-one situations with Dylan Fairchild.

But after that, Orlando Brown Jr., he had a solid day.

All right.

I'm pretty sure Orlando Brown Jr. is a contract they can get out of pretty quick.

But Dylan Fairchild, I thought, looked much improved there at left guard.

Ted Karras, plus they drafted a center this year in Connor Liu.

And then that leaves you with who at right guard? Dalton Reisner, who, yeah, career, you know, kind of journeyman.

It felt like he was awesome this last week.

So damn, I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Part of me kind of does want to just go Caden Green, and in this place we would say, hey, Dylan Fairchild, congratulations, you're going to right guard.

Fairchild, or sorry, Caden Green, you're going to play left guard until we move on from Orlando Brown Jr.