Zac Taylor

[Soonerpeace]

(01-17-2024, 02:49 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Personally, I think that Zac and company saw in the first Pittsburgh game that Browning out of the gun was not even remotely capable of running the spread like Burrow does.  The transition to mostly under Center was something that most teams did not have a lot of footage of the Bengals, let along Jake Browning running.  Sure, Browning was able to get the team to rally with him, and they reeled off a few wins to keep the season interesting.  However, against tougher defenses like KC and Baltimore, the Browning led offense just had no answer.

Joe Burrow in his end of season presser said the offense was the same for Jake as for him. That they had worked on all those things for him but were protecting his calf. They were obviously saving it for the big game with SF. Zac said the first game with Jake they already had their game plan in for Pitt and kept it. After that game they learned more what Jake did better and liked. It’s over blown that the staff under the cloak of deep darkness and oil lamps hatched a new offense for Jake. In fact they were able to do some things that they liked that Joe didn’t. But the big deal pointed out by Troy Aikman in talking to the coaches they took away him having to figure protections and simplified that.