If Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor has ideas in mind when it comes to altering his coaching staff this offseason, he isn’t making it known just yet.
Taylor got asked about changes to his coaching staff ahead of his team’s season-ending game against the Cleveland Browns and kept his answer short and sweet:
“Those are things we’ll talk about after the season.”
While the answer isn’t surprising, there is plenty of reason for Taylor to find himself confronted with it.
Taylor and his staff had to learn on the fly and things weren’t assembled fully until late in the process. But nobody expected the raw staff to put together the worst start in franchise history and have just one win with a single game remaining on the schedule.
The second half of the season served as an evaluation period for the coaching staff as much as it did for the players. The question now is whether coaches like Jim Turner and positional coaches along the defense will get another chance next year after rebounding from poor starts. How injuries play a role in this judgment is hard to say, too.
From the posturing of the franchise right now, Taylor himself isn’t going anywhere despite the poor record. But the same can’t be said for his staff, which could see some changes over the course of the offseason.
