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Head coach Zac Taylor's weekend appointment of Frank Pollack as his offensive line coach/run game coordinator is a significant hire for a host of reasons as the Bengals spent Monday meeting on how they plan to scout the Senior Bowl at the end of the month.

It marks the biggest change the play caller has made to his playbook since Taylor arrived two seasons ago. In a move as wide reaching as Pollack's signature wide zone, Taylor displayed a fresh, bold approach to improving the offense when he reached out beyond his staff and turned to a coach that was on the staff he replaced after the 2018 season.

He also gave Pollack a title in the kitchen cabinet of Taylor and offensive coordinator Brian Callahan that cooks up game plans, although Pollack said in his Monday Zoom with the Cincinnati media that the run game is at the heart of any NFL offensive line coach's job description.

"It's the first time I've had that title. Most O-line coaches kind of play that role across the league. It is what it is. It's just a title," Pollack said. "It's not going to change, in my view, what I do, what I have been doing everywhere I have been for the most part. There always have some little nuances with every staff in how that rolls out throughout the week but it was nice that was something they added." 

From the locker room all the way up to the radio booth, the Pollack add is a popular move throughout the organization. Even in Adam Knollman's equipment room, despite Pollack deploying numerous contraptions in practice for his linemen to get more work. 

 "He's not a guy that is going to say that one size fits all," said long-time Bengals radio analyst Dave Lapham, the club's Super Bowl guard who studied Pollack during the one season he spent as the Bengals line coach in 2018.

"He played. He knows everybody is not the same. Each guy has a different body type. He does a real good job adjusting technique. I don't think there'll be a huge overhaul, but I think he'll put in some of his own stuff, that's for sure."

The Bengals have struggled for consistency running the ball the last two seasons with and without two-time 1,000-yard rusher Joe Mixon.

In 2019, the Bengals were at the bottom of NFL rushing for the first half of the season before shooting to sixth over the last half. This past season, before Mixon suffered a season-ending foot injury in the sixth game, he was averaging 3.6 yards per carry before the team finished the year 27th in the league at 4.1.

Center Billy Price, the Bengals' first-round pick the year Pollack coached him, doesn't see different plays, but a different approach.

"Every NFL team has the same menu of run plays," said Price, an enthusiastic Pollack supporter from day one. "A wide zone. Inside zone. Counter. Power. The biggest difference Coach Pollack brings is the technical aspect of understanding it and to execute it. He's got very high expectations for us in the room and we need to elevate ourselves to his standard and rise above that standard."

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