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The coronavirus pandemic has forced the NFL to try out something it never has before: going 100 percent virtual. Earlier this week, NFL commi sioner Roger Goodell announced Nico Hoerner Jersey that the NFL will hold awith team personnel separately located in their homes -- which means teams could potentially run into problems they've never encountered before during one of the most important events of the year.While several i sues could arise such as videoconferencing hacking, internet outages or power outages, head coach Zac Taylor is more excited than he is apprehensive."I think our guys have really embraced it and done a good job of adjusting," Taylor said during a virtual pre s conference on Wednesday. "We're excited to see what the draft looks like this way. I know there Daniel Descalso Jersey are some people uneasy around the league about it, but I'm excited to see how it all plays out and what it looks like and who can adjust the best."The leaguein advance of the real event so they can try to work out all of the kinks, but Taylor says the Bengals have had meetings with everybody who will be involved in the draft proce s over the last few weeks, and they feel comfortable about embracing this challenge."We've had meetings with everybody in the building over the last three weeks. We all feel real comfortable with it," Taylor said. "You can make phone calls. It does benefit us, because we pick at the top of the round in a lot of those rounds, so you're coming off an open day, really, and so we have Greg Maddux Jersey some communication that can take place over an 18-hour period in a couple of those rounds. Again, we feel very, very comfortable with the proce s that's going to unfold for us. We've had great communication throughout." head coach John Harbaugh voiced his concern about his earlier this week, and he's clearly not as excited for this virtual event as his fellow AFC North head coach."Yeah, big concern," Harbaugh said during a conference Zoom call on Monday,via Jonas Shaffer of theBaltimore Sun. "Every time I read something in, like, the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times that talks about how me sed up Zoom is, or some of these other deals ... I immediately text it to our IT people, and director of Mark Grace Jersey football administration Nick Matteo's one of those guys, and they a sure me that we are doing everything humanly po sible."Additionally, recently amongst certaincoaches and other NFL staff members about IT employees entering their homes for fear of spreading the virus, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. While there will surely be some technological learning curves NFL general managers and head coaches will have to get over, the fact that the league plans on hosting a practice draft should help put everyone at ease. The Bengals hold the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, so they will Justin Grimm Jersey kick off the virtual event come Thursday April 23.