The NFL is famous for being a league “what have you been for me lately”. A success season is excellent, but if it is not reproduced year after year, even the most accomplished players or coaches can find themselves on the hot seat. Look at Doug Pederson, who won the Super Bowl LII to secure the Philadelphia Eagles their first Lombardi trophy but only separated three years later.
Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor seems to walk on a similar road, which could end with similar results, if he does not return to his winning ways. Ben Solak, NFL analyst for ESPN, recently Classified by coach staff of each team before the 2025 seasonAnd Taylor and his coordinators landed in n ° 17, a drop in three locations in their rank of 2024.
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Justifying this classification, writes Solak, “Here they are in the 17th, and it is because Taylor does not have the same impact on the offensive as Matt Lafleur or Shanahan or Mcvay (or McDaniel or O’Connell, and so on).
Solak threw a bengal fans bone, admitting that it was a difficult classification for him. “I will say so: the teams between n ° 14 and n ° 17 constitute the most difficult section of this exercise. You could take them in any order and I think it was the way I classified them. ”
Thus, everything is not lost for Bengals and Zac Taylor as a function of the classification in the lower half of the league. As Solak admits, its ranking is more a “known to unknown” rather than “good to rock”. However, the Bengals have now missed the playoffs for a second consecutive seasonHardly regressing the consecutive appearances of the AFC championship in 2021 and 2022. A dominant quarter of a quarter On the list, repeated failures cannot be tolerated for a long time.
It is too early to say that 2025 is a brand year for Taylor, but if the Bengals are missing the playoffs again, his work could be serious.
