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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Greg Moore Q & A from Bengals rookie minicamp
===LUDWIG AT LARGE sat down with Greg Moore, the former University of Cincinnati tailback from Trotwood-Madison High School, who is competing at Cincinnati Bengals rookie minicamp on a tryout basis. Moore (6-1, 222) won the Brig Owens Award as UC’s top back as a junior in 2006 when he rushed for 709 yards and four TDs. His production dipped to 450 yards and two TDs in 2007 as part of the Bearcats’ “Four Horsemen” attack that included Jacob Ramsey, Butler Benton and Bradley Glatthaar. Moore never complained about sharing the ball.===
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Q. How’s minicamp going so far?
A. It’s going pretty good. I’m learning a whole lot. I’m just getting down in the playbook.
Q. When did you graduate from Trotwood-Madison?
A. I graduated from Trotwood in 2003. It was Coach (Maurice) Douglass’ first winning season. I had to throw that in there.
Q. What would it mean to you to be able to play in the NFL?
A. It would mean a lot. It would give me something to talk about when I get older. It’ll help me be able to tell some of the kids back in Trotwood how to be successful in life.
Q. How long are your odds to come in here and earn a contract as a tryout guy?
A. I don’t know. I just come out here and work hard every day like everybody else. Do my best to put my best foot forward and try to do what’s best for the team.
Q. What are you trying to show the coaches?
A. I’m just trying to show them my best by putting my best foot forward, and trying to show them I can be a part of this team and help this team win.
Q. What do you bring to the table?
A, A good personality, a good attitude and a desire to win.
Q. Obviously, you’re trying to stand out?
A. Yes, sir. That’s what I came in here to do. I’ve been doing it since I was six years old playing running back for the Trotwood Wee Rams.
Q. Was it difficult to be in a four-man rotation at UC with Butler Benton, Jacob Ramsey and Bradley Glatthaar?
A. Not really. It wasn’t tough to stand out. I came from a high school where there were a lot of backs that were pretty good. We rotated in high school, too, so I was kind of used to it.
Q. Are you confident in your ability to catch the ball and block as a complete back?
A. After coming out of coach (Brian) Kelly’s program at UC, we did a lot of catching. I feel confident catching the ball. I’m trying to show them the full package that a running back should have.”
Q. How does it feel to be here?
A. It feels good. It’s now how you got here. It’s what you do once you get here in order to stay. I feel good and I’m just confident about everything I do. And I’m just happy to have this opportunity to be out here with the Bengals.”
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Tale of two rookie defensive tackles
THE ‘S’ MEN (SIMS & SHIRLEY)
Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis went on and on about rookie defensive tackle Pat Sims, the club’s third round draft pick out of Auburn.
Lewis praised Sims’ work ethic and conditioning, along with his “high energy” and “good burst.”
Lewis then unloaded on fifth-round DT Jason Shirley, whose technique is flawed.
Shirley told me he wants to drop 15 pounds from his 340-pound frame so he can play “sideline to sideline.”
“Jason has a lot to learn but I think that is something he’s going to have to do through the process,” Lewis said. “But he will be a willing learner.
“He’s a big, big strong man, so we’ll get him to learn to get into the correct stances that we want, and be faster and quicker with his hands and allow him to use all that big man that he’s got there. Because right now he’s wasting about two-thirds of it.
“We’ll hope that when he leaves here Sunday afternoon that he’ll have a good understanding of what is expected of him when he comes back and into the off-season and training camp.”
Clearly, Shirley has a choice to make.
He can blossom into a John Randall or Bryant Young (his two favorite players).
Or he can deteriorate into a Matthias Askew or Kenderick Allen, a pair of monsters who wasted their talent.
P.S. Askew is attempting to resurrect his career with the Washington Redskins, who re-signed him on March 17, 2008, after cutting him on Sept. 1, 2007.
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