Zac Taylor's Play Calling In OT Was Unforgivable

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(12-13-2021, 11:32 AM)TecmoBengals Wrote: Zac acknowledged the OT mistake of running on 1st down. He should have tried to get the instant W and not even let the defense get on the field. Making the comment, "I cannot believe there are so many losing teams in the NFL with all these coaching experts wasting away on a message board" fails to account for the perspective that you do not have to be an NFL coach or really even know much about football to recognize Burrow should have been passing in OT after completing passes to Higgins and Uzomah. Burrow should have been passing for the win. That's the whole point of the criticism, Zac has NFL coaching experience but failed to recognize it in the moment. You're right, none of us have the skills to even be in such a position; however, Zac admitted the mistake of not going for the win. Other NFL coaches wouldn't have made the same mistake in the big moment.

Zac is most likely the 1st NFL coach in the history of the league to 2nd guess his play calling after a loss. 

You're right about other coaches though. There are those that would have went for 2 after we scored the final TD in regulation...I mean.."go for the win" why don't ya. 

Here's Zac "admitting his mistake":

Quote:What's your thought process on the run calls at the 26 yard line in overtime?

"There were some things we packaged based on what they were giving up. They gave us a lot of 'two-high' (coverage) over the course of that game. There were a lot of 'cover-two' looks, and we wanted to take advantage of that with the run. Some of those were just mixed calls."


To go back to the play calls inside the 25 in overtime, is there ever a thought with a hot quarterback to stick with the hot hand and say, 'Let's ride him?'

"You know ... yep. Yep. I agree with you. That's one that will keep you up at night. We have a quarterback that can win us a lot of games, and there's maybe one more pass instead of a run there. Sure, if we hit that run, I feel great about it. But we didn't. And so then you go back to hindsight, and I'm sure I'll feel a lot of that tonight."