Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor is well aware of the calls for him to give up play-calling duties.
But as in the past, he’s stressing that what goes into the offense, down to the individual play-calls, is a collective effort that involves multiple people.
ESPN’s Ben Baby captured Taylor’s thoughts on the matter: “It’s collective on the headset every play. So whether it’s coming out of my mouth or somebody else’s, it all gets the same end result. We communicate every play.”
Taylor concurred with offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, for example, that one of the offense’s issues is not enough targets for Tyler Boyd.
As a whole, Taylor said things will continue as usual:
Bengals coach Zac Taylor, on the offense: "We’re going to continue work as a unit and coaching staff to have a better flow over the course of the game and score more points than we’ve scored.”
— Ben Baby (@Ben_Baby) October 10, 2022
It’s a long way of suggesting the team’s offensive woes are extremely complex. Even if Taylor were to surrender play-calling duties as some might want, Callahan and others have been so involved that it would appear little would change.
From an outsider’s perspective, it seems like the team’s issues might’ve started all the way back in installs during camp. The offense hasn’t been prepped to counter the obvious uptick in Cover 2 it’s seeing, to name one notable issue.
Calls for change are understandable though, as an offense boasting Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, Tyler Boyd, Tee Higgins and Joe Mixon has scores 20, 17 and 17 in three losses while the defense does the brunt of the heavy lifting.
