Fiery Taylor Asks Bengals To Stay Connected

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(09-22-2019, 08:06 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: ORCHARD PARK, N.Y - Bengals head coach Zac Taylor, who brought California cool with his Rams playbook, blew hot in Sunday’s post-game speech to his team.

In the wake of the Bills’ 21-17 victory secured on an interception of Andy Dalton at the Bills 10 with 12 seconds left, Taylor’s voice could be heard in the adjacent interview room.

Basically, he was telling his players in a raised, animated voice to hang in because they’re playing tough enough and battling enough to win. Safety Jessie Bates admitted that was a new side to Taylor.

“Zac’s kind of a calm and cool guy. I think that gets us going, too, when gets fired up,” Bates said.

Safety Shawn Williams loved it.

“I love Zac. That’s all I could think about,” Williams said of the talk. “I’ll play for him. I’ll never quit on that guy. Not him … He wants to win. He knows how to win. We just have to put it together.”

Taylor kept his composure, but he sees plays like the holding call that wiped out Darius Phillips' kick return TD and the 12-men on the field penalty that forced them to score a touchdown at the end and not kick a tying field goal and knows how close they are to 2-1 instead of 0-3. He also knows what's next: "The wolves are coming and they're going to try and tear us apart." He defined wolves as "anybody who's not in our building."

https://www.bengals.com/news/quick-hits-fiery-taylor-asks-bengals-to-stay-connected

Good share.  Thanks, Piston.  I love this and I won't bother to compare it to Marv, but I see that he isn't quitting and, hopefully, neither will his team.  

I would tell them to hold more as only about 15 visual blatant holds were on Buffalo and I didn't see one called.  Calling Tate for that "hold" (even the announcers said they didn't really see anything) was a classic case of a ref seeing the play break open and on his way to a TD so he threw a flag behind the play.  I have seen it many times and this is nothing different.  I have no idea why the Bengals are on the NFL's shyt list, but clearly they have been there for some time. 

Maybe it has to do with market size, and maybe it has to do with low attendance (I mean, can you blame people after that home opener?).

Whatever the cause, it was laughable how poor the officiating was AGAIN this week.