When Sean McVay looks across the field on Super Bowl Sunday, he’ll see a familiar face in Zac Taylor. For two seasons, Taylor worked on McVay’s coaching staff with the Rams. He started out as the team’s assistant wide receivers coach in 2017 before being promoted to quarterbacks coach the following year.
It was unlikely that these two would meet in a Super Bowl just three years into Taylor’s tenure with the Bengals, but both he and McVay did an excellent job with their teams this season. The result? A rare coaching matchup in the Super Bowl.
According to Evan Kaplan of ESPN, this is just the fifth Super Bowl where one head coach was previously an assistant on the other head coach’s staff. The most recent instance of this happening was in Super Bowl XLI 15 years ago.
