Difficult challenge
It certainly won't be easy, but rookie center Logan Jones should benefit from facing coordinator Dennis Allen's defense in offseason and training camp practices.
"The biggest thing is just the beauty of DA's defense," Taylor said. "He is going to see every front known to man in OTAs alone, so that's just going to prepare him. That gets your head spinning a little bit and you're making a bunch of different calls. A lot of things come up through the course of plays that were maybe discussed in passing, but you can't walk through every single look. So by getting all these different looks that our defense presents, I think that's just really going to train him and get him ready.
"Then you get to the speed of the game and potentially with joint practices, preseason games, all this experience just accumulates. And we'll see how it shakes out at the end of this."
Center is one of the most difficult positions to play as a rookie.
"Every single week there's somebody across from you who was probably a college All-American or maybe he's a 12-year vet in the NFL, so they all present their different challenges," Taylor said. "Whether you're playing a 320-pound nose or a 300-pound nose who is super quick or they're putting typically a defensive end inside in certain pass rush situations, that's probably not as much as you see in the college game.
"And for us, our center really kind of drives the system. He's making all the IDs. The quarterback will reaffirm them a lot of time … (but) everybody's kind of waiting on the identification process from the center. I'm not sure that happens with all the college systems. It definitely didn't used to as there were a lot more up-tempo systems in college. Now, I don't necessarily know how things have changed with the quarterback communicator being in the huddle a little bit more, if the centers are taking on more in college. But I think that's one element that I think is a little bit different from college to the pros."