Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz call for Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor to finally be fired. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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Fire him.
Fire him yesterday, fire him last year.
Fire him tomorrow.
If you fire him tomorrow, It’s too late.
Jack, get Jack Taylor out of there.
Look, I have seen with my own two eyes Joe Burrow elevate teams that maybe You know, we don’t have the greatest coaching staffs.
But Joe Burrow cantt overcome everything.
And so, And Joe Burrow can’t overcome what Zach Taylor has done.
Zack Taylor, I thinkcan I say this kindly, call Zack Taylor kind of a bozo?
This team has way too much talent on it, and I know Zach Taylor isn’t solely to blame.
For an offensive line that can’t pass protect, for Joe Burrow.
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I get that.
I understand that.
It’s not Zack Taylor’s fault that Joe Burrow had the turf toe injury.
But move on from Zach Taylor.
This team has fallen so short of expectations.
On such an epic scale compared to how good their offense can be and their quarterback, who I think it is one of the best in the National Football League.
Get Zack Taylor out of here.
I would argue that it was coaching malpractice at the beginning of Joe Burrow’s career.
They were comfortable dropping him back 60 times a game behind an offensive line that Couldn’t protect absolutely anybody.
I would argue part of the reason he’s constantly injured is that he’s put at risk By the play calling, I would argue at some point Zach Taylor is Part of the flaw in Joe Burrow’s game, and you have Joe, freaking Burrow, And you can’t do anything with it.
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You have Joe Burrow, And you have Ja’Marr Chase, and you have T. Higgins, and, And you have a voice in the room.
You have a voice in the organization.
I asked, what does Zach Taylor bring to this versus what everyone who plays for Zach brings Taylor brings a lot to Zach Taylor.
At this point, if we’re discussing the Teeter-totter or seesaw, depending on where you are.
Of credit, like I’m looking at Zach Taylor, and he’s sitting on the teeter-totter, And it doesn’t move, but then all the talent has hops on the other side, and you realize, Oh, yeah, all this coach has to do is lift what’s around him and not screw it up.
And Zach Taylor has done the exact opposite for years.