Zac Taylor On Lou Anarumo, Joe Burrow, Willie Anderson, Andrew Whitworth

Even in a short week head coach Zac Taylor took questions from Bengals.com senior writer Geoff Hobson.

GH: How have you seen Lou Anarumo evolve as your defensive coordinator?

ZT: I think all of us as play-callers have grown. Lou had the experience he had in Miami, where he got a chance to call 12 games (as the interim DC in 2016) and then he gets a chance to reflect on that and go work for different people and then come here and institute it. We’ve continued to infuse talent into that side of the ball, and he’s done a really good job letting those guys play to their strengths.

You see guys even from other teams that maybe are having even more success here. Plenty of guys who have had success elsewhere, paid them money and they came here, and they continue on, but even other guys that maybe were cut or traded, and I think our staff has done a great job getting the most out of those guys and allowing them to play with confidence.

GH: You said you wouldn’t want to play against your defense. Why?

ZT: It’s just a balance of, I think, the talent. I don’t feel like there is a weakness of talent at any level. I think Louie does a good job of mixing up the calls and the guys do a good job of mixing up the looks. They understand why you’re calling things and what you want to make it look like. They get how everything ties together, and that can create some difficulties.

They give you different fronts, several different fronts with the same personnel. That’s always a challenge whenever a team does that to you. I think it’s well-coordinated, I think it’s well-executed, I think those guys do a really good job, the coaches and players.

GH: As we saw a year ago Thursday night, Joe Burrow did well against cover zero. The Dolphins play a lot of zero. Are they more likely to use the same dose on a short week?

ZT: We’ll find out what they do. Their style of zero has certainly bled around the league a little bit. We do it here. We practice against it, we run it. It will be fun to see what…