Zac Taylor on Bengals' Loss to Chiefs
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00:00 I'm just sick for our guys.
00:01 We asked them to fight all week and come in here and play
00:06 together in a tough road environment.
00:07 That's what they did today.
00:08 Every guy left it all in the field, emotional game,
00:12 physical game, all the things that we
00:13 knew were going to happen, happened.
00:15 And we just came up short.
00:16 You got to give Kansas City credit.
00:18 They got it done there in the second half down the stretch.
00:23 But again, our guys left it all in the field,
00:25 and we just came up short today.
00:27 How much of the big plays defensively do you think--
00:30 how much of that was a factor in just getting
00:32 a much more manageable--
00:33 Yeah, big plays are always a big factor.
00:36 What happened in the second half offensively?
00:39 We got stopped on the fourth and one down there in the goal line
00:41 and then just struggled to get some rhythm.
00:44 However many series we had after that,
00:46 it was just-- you got to give credit to them.
00:49 What was the decision goal for the fourth and one?
00:51 It was fourth and one, just trying to get the points there.
00:53 Did you feel like in the game, I guess,
00:55 it was a little bit of a challenge for Kansas City?
00:57 I just felt like fourth and one, we needed to go for it there.
01:00 The call on your flop in the middle,
01:01 they looked like they were kind of attacking for that.
01:04 Yeah, they put a goal in front, really,
01:06 in a little further situation than we expected.
01:11 It was a good play by them.
01:12 They did a good job making the play.
01:14 It becomes tough up front.
01:15 Do you consider calling timeout?
01:16 Trying to get out of the play?
01:17 Well, you don't know what's going
01:18 to happen until after the fact.
01:19 We knew what the personnel was in the game,
01:21 but the way they played it after the fact, you see,
01:23 it was tough.
01:25 Zach, was the strategy coming in to play ball control
01:29 with ball possession, which you guys did well to get
01:31 the points there?
01:32 That's just really how their defense is set up.
01:36 People have not really scored points on them.
01:38 I think they're the second leading defense in the NFL
01:39 in terms of points scored.
01:40 And so they don't give up a lot of big plays.
01:43 They do a good job rushing the passer.
01:45 We try to be mindful of all that.
01:46 We moved it efficiently, obviously,
01:48 in the first half.
01:48 In the second half, we just weren't
01:50 able to maintain that rhythm.
01:52 Were they doing anything in particular?