T.J. Houshmandzadeh: 'If Heads Start to Roll, It’s Going to be Zac Taylor'

Cincinnati is 1-3 to start the 2023 season.

Author:
Russ Heltman
Publish date:
Oct 5, 2023 11:56 AM EDT

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CINCINNATI — Former Bengals wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh is not happy with how Zac Taylor and the rest of the Bengals' offensive staff have schemed around Joe Burrow's injury during Cincinnati's 1-3 start.

"The Patriots offense is better than the Bengals right now," Houshmandzadeh said as the host of Airing It Out on Fubo Sports. "The only offense worse is the Giants? And when you look at the Patriots and the Giants, they don’t have the players that I just named, not on the offensive side of the ball. If you look at the Los Angeles Rams and you look at the Cincinnati Bengals and you had to just pick one offense – and you can’t just go player for player – 99% of football people will take the Bengals. But the Rams' offense is considerably better than what the Bengals have done thus far early in the season. So somebody has to take the blame, that’s just what it is.”

Cincinnati's 12.3 points per game is only ahead of the Giants, and they are No. 32 behind the Giants in yards per play (four yards per play).

Houshmandzadeh laid out why it won't be Burrow getting the boot out of Cincinnati if things stay on this course.

“If heads start to roll, it’s going to be Zac Taylor. Because Joe is going nowhere," Houshmandzadeh said. "Joe will play with the Bengals until he retires; they’re not letting Joe go play for another team. Zac needs to figure out where is the disconnect and say, ‘Why aren’t we moving the ball? The Bengals should be much better and Zac Taylor, ultimately if it continues down this path, he will take the lion’s share of the blame. There’s just no other way around it. So he needs to figure this out sooner than later because they went into the season, not with aspirations of winning the division – everyone assumed that was a foregone conclusion – but it was Super Bowl or bust. And right now they aren’t even going to get into the playoffs.”

Team Rankings gives Cincinnati a 14.5% chance to make the playoffs as of this writing.

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