10-18-2022, 01:32 PM
Charlie Goldsmith: The Enquirer
After the Cincinnati Bengals lost to the Dallas Cowboys in a Week 2 game where the Bengals’ offense looked broken, head coach Zac Taylor and offensive coordinator Brian Callahan had a meeting to deconstruct the identity of the Bengals’ offense.
The Bengals were running two separate offenses at that point. There was a shotgun passing game, which looks a lot like the spread offense that Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow ran at LSU. And there was a power wide-zone run game the Bengals ran when they were under center.
The problem was the two schemes didn’t mesh. Defenses could tell what was coming based on how the Bengals lined up. They were predictable, and Taylor and Callahan
The message from Taylor and Burrow was to play for first downs, not necessarily for explosive plays. With the Bengals’ success over the middle of the field, with the run game and with run-pass options, Mixon said the Saints became the first team this year that “had to play the Bengals honest.”
“Burrow wasn’t looking for the big play, he was taking what the defense was giving us,” Mixon said. “That led to the glory everybody is getting right now. As long as he’s doing what we’ve got to do, we’ll win nine times out of ten. Really 10 times out of 10. That’s the type of offense we are.”
After the Cincinnati Bengals lost to the Dallas Cowboys in a Week 2 game where the Bengals’ offense looked broken, head coach Zac Taylor and offensive coordinator Brian Callahan had a meeting to deconstruct the identity of the Bengals’ offense.
The Bengals were running two separate offenses at that point. There was a shotgun passing game, which looks a lot like the spread offense that Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow ran at LSU. And there was a power wide-zone run game the Bengals ran when they were under center.
The problem was the two schemes didn’t mesh. Defenses could tell what was coming based on how the Bengals lined up. They were predictable, and Taylor and Callahan
The message from Taylor and Burrow was to play for first downs, not necessarily for explosive plays. With the Bengals’ success over the middle of the field, with the run game and with run-pass options, Mixon said the Saints became the first team this year that “had to play the Bengals honest.”
“Burrow wasn’t looking for the big play, he was taking what the defense was giving us,” Mixon said. “That led to the glory everybody is getting right now. As long as he’s doing what we’ve got to do, we’ll win nine times out of ten. Really 10 times out of 10. That’s the type of offense we are.”
Romo “ so impressed with Zac ...1 of the best in the NFL… they are just fundamentally sound. Taylor the best winning % in the Playoffs of current coaches. Joe Burrow” Zac is the best head coach in the NFL & that gives me a lot of confidence." Taylor led the Bengals to their first playoff win since 1990, ending the longest active drought in the four major North American sports, en and appeared in Super Bowl LVI, the first since 1988.
