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Two vignettes from Tuesday as the new Bengals coaches continue to take their changes from the classroom to the field during the first week of spring voluntary drills (OTAs) on the grass.

Lucas Patrick, a versatile interior offensive lineman who has started Opening Day for three different teams, hopes to win a competition to make it a fourth after he signed with the Bengals Friday.

INDIANAPOLIS _ A month into his task of re-building, new Bengals defensive coordinator Al Golden took a break Wednesday from scanning the deepest crop of defensive linemen in recent years at the NFL scouting combine and briefed the press.

New Bengals offensive line coach Scott Peters, who mixes the martial arts with the mentality of an old school lineman, sat down this week for a conversation with Bengals.com senior writer Geoff Hobson.

Bengals left tackle Orlando Brown Jr., two weeks removed from ending the season playing on an injured leg, braved the Arctic temperatures to show up at Paycor Stadium this week as he seeks to repeat his monstrous offseason of last year.

Jim McNally, the Bengals' Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive line coach and among the first to reach guru status, has to hand it to Scott Peters.