LB Anthony Schlegel (Boar Hunter)

[Big Papa]

Good news for Schlegel too. A new start could be just what he needs, and being back in the Buckeye state is a good thing too.

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

Welcome Home Boar Hunter!

 

[Buckskin86]

Marvin Lewis Press Conference
September 6, 2007

Q: What did you like about Anthony Schlegel?
ML: He's extremely smart. He played with great pad level at Ohio State. He's a very sound football player, and always played with great intensity. At the workout, when everybody's running around worried about what colored tights and stuff they have on, he just gets down and goes. He's the kind of guy you want on your football team because he's going to rub some dirt on his wound and keep on working. We need a little bit of that around here."

News - Marvin Lewis Press Conference - Cincinnati Bengals

Quick hitters

• Linebacker Anthony Schlegel, who was claimed off waivers from the Jets on Sunday, will play on special teams Monday night.

"He's a very sound player with great intensity," head coach Marvin Lewis said. "He's the kind of guy you want on your team because he's going to rub some dirt on his wound and keep on working. We need a little bit of that around here."

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[OregonBuckeye]

What's Schlegs weighing these days? Think he'll be forced to drop some weight so he can increase his foot speed?

 

[O'Rourke]

Good to hear he got picked up. Schlegel was an overachiever at OSU who produced a lot more on the field than people expected given his measureables. I think he can be a solid run-stuffing ILB in a 3-4 defense.

 

[Buckskin86]

Bengals notebook: Schlegel befuddled, but happy to be with Bengals
Friday, September 7, 2007 3:36 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

CINCINNATI -- Anthony Schlegel doesn't know what he did wrong with the New York Jets. He's just happy to be back in Ohio.

Schlegel, a former Ohio State linebacker, expected the Jets to cut him.

"It's tough to show what you can do when my only real opportunity was in the last (preseason) game," Schlegel said in the Bengals locker room yesterday, "and I played pretty well.

"I don't know what happened. All I know is that I worked my tail off for them. I can look myself in the mirror and say I did everything I could for that organization."

Schlegel was a surprise third-round pick in 2006. The Jets drafted David Harris in the second round of this year's draft and clearly preferred him.

Not that Schlegel is complaining.

"It feels good to be back in Ohio," he said.

While he learns the Bengals offense, Schlegel is expected to contribute immediately on special teams.

Bengals coach Marvin Lewis had little difficulty rattling off what he likes about Schlegel.

"He's extremely smart," he said. "Played with great pad level at Ohio State. A very sound football player. Played with great intensity.

"He's the kind of guy you want on your football team because he's going to rub some dirt on his wound and keep on working. We need a little bit of that around here."

The Columbus Dispatch : Bengals notebook: Schlegel befuddled, but happy to be with Bengals

Lewis has high praise for Schlegel; Newcomer 'gets down and goes'
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

Linebacker Anthony Schlegel, one of the newest Bengals, earned praise Thursday from his head coach.

Marvin Lewis said the Bengals could use some of the toughness Schlegel brings to Cincinnati.

"At the workout when everybody's running around worried about what colored tights and stuff they have on, he just gets down and goes," Lewis said of the former Ohio State star's showing at the annual scouting combine in 2006. "He's the kind of guy you want on your football team because he's going to rub some dirt on his wound and keep on working.

"We need a little bit of that around here."

Schlegel, picked up off waivers Sunday from the Jets, will play special teams in the opener Monday night against the Ravens.

Schlegel, a native Texan, is glad to be back in Ohio and adjusting as quickly as possible to his new team.

"It is, just get my nose in the (play)book," he said, "trying to soak in as much as possible in any part of the game. It's weird because you come in on the fly and then have a game to prepare for."

The Enquirer - Bengals notebook

 

[Tlangs]

Good to hear he got picked up. Schlegel was an overachiever at OSU who produced a lot more on the field than people expected given his measureables. I think he can be a solid run-stuffing ILB in a 3-4 defense.

the bengals play a 4-3 and he probably won't see the field at linebacker unless there are some injuries. Hopefully he can contribute on special teams.

 

[RugbyBuck]

"While he learns the Bengals offense, Schlegel is expected to contribute immediately on special teams."

Yes, I know it's a typo, but maybe they'll play him like Vrabel.

 

[Buckskin86]

The Bengals defense will once again be without the services of outside linebacker Rashad Jeanty and safety Ethan Kilmer. Two other linebackers, Ahmad Brooks and Lemar Marshall are listed as doubtful with groin injuries. Newly acquired linebackers Dhani Jones and Anthony Schlegel should see time on the field with their new teammates.

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[zincfinger]

It seems that the state of Texas is paying a price for Schlegel's departure.

 

[Buckskin86]

Bengals notebook
Injuries hit linebackers again
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 3:27 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
CINCINNATI -- The Bengals' already depleted linebacker corps took another hit last night against the New England Patriots.

On the second play from scrimmage, strongside linebacker Lemar Marshall suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon. Landon Johnson, playing weakside linebacker, left in the second quarter because of an injury to his eye. That left the Bengals with only two healthy linebackers on the 45-man active list.

Anthony Schlegel started at middle linebacker because of injuries to Ahmad Brooks (groin) and his backup, Caleb Miller (back). Dhani Jones, the other active linebacker, replaced Marshall.

Much of the time, Jones was the only linebacker on the field, as defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan used six defensive backs. Safety Chinedum Ndukwe often lined up as a linebacker and blitzed.

Coach Marvin Lewis had been optimistic early last week that Brooks would be able to return after missing a game in Seattle, but Brooks had a setback in practice and was downgraded to doubtful Friday.

Schlegel, a former Ohio State player, has been with the team only one month. He was one of two former Buckeyes players starting for Cincinnati.

The Columbus Dispatch : Injuries hit linebackers again

 

[Dryden]

Last night on the Buckeye Football Fever pre-game on ABC, Rob Harley related a story about Schlegel once leaving the WHAC with his bow in the middle of the evening. He came back less than five minutes later with a squirrel skewered on an arrow, which he hung in Bobby Carpenter's locker.

 

[Buckskin86]

Schlegel should start against KC

Three Bengals linebackers did not practice Wednesday, and one, Rashad Jeanty (calf), is out again for Sunday.

Two others, middle linebacker Ahmad Brooks (groin) and Caleb Miller (back), did not practice.

The likely starters against Kansas City could be Landon Johnson, Dhani Jones and Anthony Schlegel.

The Enquirer - Bengals notebook

Marvin Lewis Press Conference
October 10, 2007

Q: What does Anthony Schlegel bring to the linebacking corps?
ML: He's come in and brought some solidity. Anthony has really a sense of calmness to him. He's done a good job since he's been here with us on both defense and special teams. We keep belaboring this point. All these guys have played a lot more football than we expected them to play right away.

News - Marvin Lewis Press Conference - Cincinnati Bengals

 

[Buckskin86]

'Backer search flushes a hunter
Column by The Post's Lonnie Wheeler

That would be Anthony Schlegel, whom the discussion brings us to. Schlegel was walking around the locker room Wednesday with his right foot taped up in deference to an affliction he won't talk about because (1) he's a tough guy, and (2) he has been listening to his head coach.

For the most part, Schlegel is a talkative fellow, and entertainingly so. He has also been known to raise his voice to a fevered scream when he's closing in on a ball-carrier. His former teammate at Ohio State, Dustin Fox, once said, "He screams so loud, it's scary."

That alarming noise is often followed by a distinct grunt or two at the point of contact. After an afternoon of this, one opposing collegian looked right into Schlegel's wild eyes and said, "Man, you've got to stop grunting."

Anyway, we were talking about talking, and how Schlegel is a noted practitioner of its various forms. But, in addition to turf toe, there's another thing he won't converse about; or at least wouldn't Wednesday.

That's the little hobby he developed back home in Texas, where he was a state wrestling champion (215 pounds) and a hunter of many creatures. They include wild boar, which is the subject he prefers to avoid these days because, well, it has been previously discussed in a proportion that he believes is a little out of whack. (Ironically, that particular term is one that another former OSU teammate, Simon Fraser, now of the Cleveland Browns, once applied to Schlegel. More specifically, Fraser said that Schlegel was "a whack job." Fondly, of course.)

What Schlegel wouldn't tell us about hog hunting, as he calls it, was that he goes about it with a dog and a knife. Apparently, the dog's job is to detain the tusked beast as it thrashes through the heavy brush, and the linebacker's is to tackle it by the hind legs, much as he intends to do Sunday with Kansas City's Larry Johnson. He did allow, however, that, "We've taken some alive."

In Schlegel's case, he became a starter against New England in spite of never recording a solo tackle for Cincinnati (he had two assists against Seattle the week before) and numbering one for his NFL career, that coming last season on kick coverage for the Jets, who drafted him in the third round. For a guy with only nine healthy toes and four weeks to learn the system, he did pretty well.

"Anthony has a calmness about him," said Lewis, using a term that may have never before been applied to the screaming run-stopper. "He's kind of come in and brought some solidity. He's done a good job on both defense and special teams."

Schlegel has a chance now, with a bye week of cramming, to do a better job, and to solidify not only the Bengals' defense but his standing within it. To that end, he didn't head off to Texas over the weekend, when players were given a few days of leave.

"I stayed here," said the happy husband of his high school sweetheart and father of a son named, would you believe it, Hunter. "I would hunt in the morning, come in and get treatment, and study at night."

In his three years at Ohio State (counting the one he had to sit out) after transferring from Air Force, Schlegel became familiar with any number of hunting grounds where he can point his arrow at Buckeye bucks, his favorite being in Licking County. It was one reason why he was extra glad it was the Bengals who picked him up after the Jets placed him on waivers.

The Cincinnati Post - 'Backer search flushes a hunter

 

[Tlangs]

The Boar Hunter had 6 tackles (5 solo) in limited action this Sunday.