Key Highlights
- He still got fired. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSean McDermott made Buffalo a regular contender in the AFC, at one point going six straight seasons of winning at least one playoff game.
- He still got fired. And yet Zac Taylor remains the Bengals’ head coach after missing the playoffs three straight years.
- Don’t you think all these firings of top coaches makes the Bengals look even worse for keeping Zac?Reply: Guess it depends on the audience.
- It looks bad to the national media, which can’t accept that the Bengals aren’t like everyone else in how they operate.
- Here at home, we’re conditioned to accept Bengals mediocrity and so most people don’t think it looks all that bad. Big picture, the moves in Baltimore and Buffalo highlight that the Bengals’ standards aren’t congruent with the AFC’s elite franchises.