Zac Taylor
American and Canadian football player
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Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor, during the first media availability of Super Bowl week Monday, was asked how he was doing.
“I’ve never been better,” Taylor said, with some extra emphasis.
That rings true. Of all the people in Super Bowl LVI, Taylor is the one that might have needed this season the most. He was 6-25-1 after two seasons. He knows he didn’t have much time left to turn things around.
“Personally, if I coached at any other organization in football, I probably wouldn’t be here right now in the third year. That’s the truth,” Taylor said last month.
The NFL has become increasingly impatient with coaches. There are nine NFL teams that will go into next season with a new coach, close to one-third of the league. It used to be rare for teams to fire coaches after just two seasons; now it’s fairly common. The Bengals have been criticized for being too patient at times, but they’re in a Super Bowl with a coach that plenty of other franchises would have dumped.