{"id":652206,"date":"2026-01-04T02:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/652206\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:46:12","slug":"bengals-zac-taylor-is-safebut-is-al-golden-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/652206\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals’ Zac Taylor is safe\u2026but is Al Golden?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few different reports have said that Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> head coach Zac Taylor is safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, the latest says that support from key Bengals will save Taylor<\/a>, meaning Joe Burrow, Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More notable now is whether defensive coordinator Al Golden is safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero<\/a> classified Taylor as \u201cnot going anywhere,\u201d then wrote this about Golden:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is what Cincinnati will do on the defensive side of the ball. Al Golden\u2019s unit has been a source of frustration all season. Yet the Bengals<\/a>‘ defense has slowly and steadily improved, hitting pause on any discussions of moving on. Taylor and the team\u2019s brass will go through their decisions once the season ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED: Bengals who could be playing final games with Cincinnati<\/a><\/p>\n

It is easy to dismiss the idea that Golden goes anywhere. If he wasn\u2019t let go after a historically bad stretch in Teryl Austin-like fashion, the Bengals probably aren\u2019t going to move on after his young defense showed signs of life down the stretch here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, there\u2019s the whole issue of accountability. Burrow\u2019s been sending messages<\/a> about the team not being good enough. Chase did the same thing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Considering it feels like effective general manager Duke Tobin can do no wrong in Cincinnati, one has to wonder where that accountability might fall for a poorly constructed roster that didn\u2019t perform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While it seems unlikely, perhaps Golden’s seat is warmer than Taylor\u2019s heading into the offseason next week.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Bengals cautioned against Joe Burrow, Matthew Stafford scenario<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few different reports have said that Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor is safe.\u00a0 In fact, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[2338,2345,247,265,228,1574,3534,227,256,2296,7,2339,8886,20842,8884,8633,1573,1577,3310,32,330,88,6,35196,245,338,9,266,3177,8885,2978],"class_list":["post-652206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-al","tag-al-golden","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-bengals","tag-burrow","tag-chase","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-football","tag-golden","tag-higgins","tag-hub","tag-jamarr","tag-jamarr-chase","tag-joe","tag-joe-burrow","tag-matthew","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-stafford","tag-tee","tag-tee-higgins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}