Zac Taylor’s wife, Sarah, has a message for critics of the Bengals head coach’s late-game decision-making during Thursday night’s loss to the Ravens
With 38 seconds to go in the fourth quarter, Taylor made the futile decision to go for a two-point conversion after a touchdown put them down by one instead of opting to kick the extra point to send the game to overtime.
Baltimore would stop Cincinnati’s two-point attempt, securing the win as quarterback Joe Burrow threw an incomplete pass to backup tight end Tanner Hudson, prompting Sarah to vent on social media about her husband’s loss.
“I am in rage mode right now and should delete Instagram,” Sarah wrote on the platform. “I just want people to know how hard this is to watch. My husband went work on Monday at 5:15 am. Spent the night at the stadium. Came home Tuesday at 11pm. Left for Baltimore Wednesday and will get home at 4 am. Tomorrow. He’ll work all day tomorrow bc they have a game Sunday.
“My kids haven’t seen him since Sunday. He had the perfect game plan. Brooks was mad at me for watching the last play [with] my head under the covers and I said I’m sorry people will say stuff to me everywhere I go for the next week and he said ‘me too mom get over it.’
“I don’t know how these coaches and players do it but the best thing I can do is move on like them.”
After the game, Taylor said he had no regrets about the decision despite falling short of the conversion.
“Any time it doesn’t work, you’re disappointed, and you want to evaluate and figure out what the best decision is,” Taylor said Friday, according to the Dayton Daily News. “Absolutely would go for it again. That wouldn’t change for me, just it didn’t go our way, and so again, you’ve got to think about the next time we’re in that situation, evaluate what our best options are.”
The referees may have added even more fuel to the Bengals and their fans’ fire after no flag was thrown despite two potential penalties on the play, a hold on tight end Mike Gesicki and a facemask on Burrow.