TRUTH article about Zac Taylor

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(12-08-2020, 12:51 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Zac Taylor will end up 4-27-1 for his lifetime head coaching record.  That’s an 0.141 win percentage.  I’m not mad at Zac, however, because he didn’t hire himself.  

There are coaches who win Super Bowls with talented teams like Noll, Lombardi, and Belichick.  

There are coaches who can rebuild a losing team like Lewis, Flores, and Stefanski.

Then there are coaches who can drive a team straight off a cliff into an abyss of misery. Unfortunately, Zac is one of these coaches.

I'm not even mad at the Bengals for hiring him.  They took a chance on a guy who seemed like he might make it work.  There is such an outrageously slim percentage of guys in coaching who make great head coaches at the NFL level.  Some of it is skill, some is the chemistry with the team and FO, some is just the timing.  

I was willing to take a chance on Taylor when he was hired, and I think it was worth the experiment.  He could have been amazing.  Came off a SB team, young, energetic, bringing new ideas to the organization.  Looking back on it we can all punch a bunch of holes in those things, but the reality is that it just as easily could have worked.  His past failures as an OC didn't dictate or predict his failure as a HC.  But I also think it's time to end the experiment and give another guy a shot.  

It's a constant game to try to get the players and the coaches at the right time.  Just hoping it happens here before the Burrow window closes.