Jungle Roar Bengals Media Day Highlights, Biggest Stories As Training Camp Opens w/Richard Skinner

if the team doesn't get off to the kind of start that a lot of people are expecting with all of the roster changes in the offseason.

Yeah, just so to put a peek behind the curtains, we do this in different pods.

Each of the TVs have a little pod of their own, and some people like yourself do a lot of video.

Jay Morrison is doing a lot of video as well for James Rapine.

You guys were in kind of those pods.

I was in the writer's pod, even though I'm really not writing anymore.

It was very nice of them to invite me to the lunch, and I took them up on it, so I got a chance to go down and at least listen in and ask a couple questions here and there.

Yeah, I think Zach knows how big this year is, A, because the front office has done a lot of things to make this roster better.

He got asked a couple different times about, did you find the secret sauce last year for playing players in the preseason? Are you going to do it again? Are you going to do it more? Are you going to do it less? He wouldn't commit to any of that.

I suspect he'll probably do what he did last year in terms of playing time for both guys on offense and defense.

We talked about B.J. Hill a little bit.

It does sound like he'll be back at some point in training camp.

I guess that's some good news.

You know, he missed all of the OTAs.

He was there, but he missed all the OTAs.

I didn't think it was going to linger into this part of it where he was put on the pup list, but it sounds like he'll be back and be okay.

But it's funny, there weren't a lot of bombshells out of today.

Last year there was all kinds of questions about contracts and players, and this year it was kind of pretty calm.

So I asked Duke Tobin about the fact that there hasn't been a lot of drama this training camp or heading into this training camp.

And he's like, He gave kind of the stock answer you would expect.

The only people that really pay attention to the so-called drama outside of the organization are people on the outside of the organization, namely the fans and the media.

And it's something that creates a lot of interest in the team.

And while that's great, it distracts from what their job is.

But I think he took it a step further saying that, This team is really focused.

And you can tell by the business approach that everybody on the team took towards the offseason.