"Coach Simmons has preached it. I have enough leg for maybe 60 plus," McPherson said. "Go 75 percent and just concentrating on being smooth and it can go in from 54, 55, and it will go in. I'm just trying to be smooth and not over stride."
McPherson just turned 22 when he reported for camp last month. His snapper, Clark Harris (37), and holder, Kevin Huber (36), are the two oldest on the team. But the age gap hasn't stopped Huber, the Cincinnati native, from helping him out. He helped find McPherson an apartment and an engagement ring for when he popped the question last month.
"Those two guys have been great," McPherson said. "They've helped me on and off the field."
QUOTE OF THE DAY
RB Joe Mixon on being an "infectious leader:"
"I feel like they rally around me. They make plays. It has to start with me. I remember when I start fast and going hard and playing the game how it should be played, them boys follow."
SLANTS AND SCREENS: Backup safety Ricardo Allen, a former Super Bowl Falcons captain, signed on with his old college coach back in March. Allen couldn't resist when Bengals defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo traveled to Daytona Beach, Fla., to recruit him when he was on the road for Purdue.
But this time around, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow might have been the bigger sell. Now that he's worked against him, Allen says he sees things in Burrow that remind him of Matt Ryan, perennially one of the league's top quarterbacks.
"When I'm watching his confidence when he has a lot of moving pieces going on," Allen said. "Because they do a lot of motioning and shifting like that and it seems like he's able to get them in a good play in the best situation. You can tell sometimes he has a big tool box of plays to go where he notices a coverage early, he can check the play and get them into favorable matchups. He does that really well.
"The balls he throws sometimes to the middle of the field, he's got a good rope on it. There aren't too many quarterbacks that can lift the ball up and make it drop. Some of them just keep it on the same trajectory. He actually knows how to switch it up. The small things. Put it over the linebacker, make sure you get it down before the safety gets a hit on his players. Matt is really good at it. You'll see (Tom) Brady do it, too." …
Burrow and his offense is still trying to find its footing. After Thursday's off day, the offense came out and false started twice before the first snap and then Burrow and rookie wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase couldn't connect on a slant that was well covered by cornerback Chidobe Awuzie.
Burrow had wide receiver Tee Higgins open on a well-thrown deep ball but Higgins couldn't haul it in. Burrow then took a shot at Chase over the middle, but it was slightly behind him and it went incomplete.
And the defense isn't giving an inch. They couldn't survive center Trey Hopkins' low snap because edge Sam Hubbard was right in Burrow's face. There were also back-to-back snaps Burrow held it because of good coverage …
Right tackle Riley Reiff (ankle) was back in the lineup Friday. Reiff, who played at Iowa and lives in the Dakotas, had a great line when asked if Cincinnati seems like a nice Midwest fit for him.
"I'm here for football. I mean, yeah. This is my life. Right?" asked Reiff, pointing to the field in Paul Brown Stadium.
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