Taylor & Callahan Are Figuring It Out!

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(10-18-2022, 01:32 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: 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.”

I've been saying that since last year but everyone will take Charlie's word for it over mine...