Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor is one of the most polarizing names in the league in his position.
Bengals fans are well-versed in the near-daily, year-round debate. On one hand, Taylor directed the team's first playoff win in decades and appeared in a Super Bowl. On the other, the team consistently starts slow, arguably consistently underperforms and his overall numbers are brutal.
As always, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. That's fitting, considering Pro Football Talk's Patrick Daugherty just power-ranked all the NFL's head coaches and put Taylor at No. 14:
“'You are what your record says you are' has always been too blunt of an instrument, but you would generally like to have won more than 47 percent of your games through six seasons. You would hope to have more than two playoff appearances. You would love to be better than 18-16 over the past two years when you have one of the best quarterbacks on planet Earth in Joe Burrow."
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Regardless of how one feels about Taylor, the one thing that seems easy to agree on now is the fact his seat is warming up in 2025.
Taylor has now rearranged his coaching staff with firings and hirings, sworn to fix the slow starts to seasons and had team ownership open up the checkbooks massively for Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins extensions on top of the mega-deal for Joe Burrow.
If the Bengals underperform again and risk the Joe Burrow era under Taylor's direction, it won't matter where April rankings place him.
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This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: Bengals' Zac Taylor earns deserved spot in NFL head coach rankings
