Who is this Jessie Bates?

[kevin]

(09-05-2018, 10:17 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: I ask again, who is this Jessie Bates character? 

If I was the Colts O-coordinator, I would be game-planning to take a few shots at the rookie safety. I've enjoyed this mysterious invisible Jessie Bates, but i'm nervous/excited to find out what will happen when the ball is actually thrown his way.

Just another wrinkle in the excitement that is this season thus far IMO. Fingers crossed he turns out good! 
but I hope our fans show some patience with the rookie..


What i want to know, is by the end of the year, will he be known as our silent assassin, or will he have fizzled out like a silent fart?

Defensive Coordinator Coach Austin in college coached under Defensive Guru Joe Paterno at Penn State.  Also at Michigan under Carr and Florida under Urban Meyer.  In the NFL he has coached under the likes of Holmgren and John Harbaugh.   He has coached defense in 3 Super Bowls with Seattle, Arizona and Baltimore.   Often he has been defensive secondary coach at Super Bowl Level.   So I see him as a well trained and highly successful defensive secondary coach much like Dick LeBeau.   If anybody can get Bengals secondary playing great ball, it's this guy.   Don't assume Bates is going to be the safety on every play.  I look for Austin to have very sophisticated defensive schemes and looks, moving players in and out.   Remember we only saw the vanilla packages in preseason.  There must be something about this rookie the 3 time Super Bowl coach likes.  Hey, Ronnie Lott was a rookie when he beat the Bengals brains in with 49ers.  Polamalu and Ed Reed had to be rookies once as did David Fulcher.  It's not that I have confidence in Bates, but I do have confidence in Austins defensive coach history. If this kid hadn't showed Austin some game, Super Bowls Austin wouldn't have him on the team.