If you don’t think it’s fair to hold Taylor responsible for the failings of a team that lost quarterback Joe Burrow, then maybe you didn’t see how he coached them when Burrow was healthy. This has been a maddeningly and chronically underachieving team in each of the past three seasons, completely undermined by slow starts and baffling in-game decisions. Even now, he can’t stabilize his defense enough to let the red-hot Joe Flacco keep his team afloat for a few weeks. That defense has given up 86 points and 1,078 yards in the past two games — and one of them was against the Jets! Sure, that falls more on defensive coordinator Al Golden, but who picked him? Hard to say if ownership would fire Taylor, who is signed through 2026. But surely, they should.
