CINCINNATI (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER) -Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor was asked after the team’s fourth-quarter collapse and 39-38 loss to the New York Jets about a play call on 2nd-and-10 from the Bengals’ 44-yard line with 42 seconds remaining in the game that resulted in a 1-yard run by Samaje Perine.
“The first-down play - I gotta jog my memory on the second-down play,” Taylor told reporters. “Second down, we’d had some success running in that situation. Obviously, it’s not good when they’re up in there and they jam it up on you, and then the third down didn’t work. We just didn’t get it going.”
Perine had nine carries for 94 rushing yards with a touchdown in the loss.
The Bengals were outscored 23-7 in the final quarter. Cincinnati had led the previously winless Jets 31-16.
“It’s still a long season,” Taylor said. “This is gonna be a difficult season for a lot of teams, and so you just got to be in the thick of it, give yourself an opportunity. This is one that we had right in our grasp, and that’s the disappointing part about it. We were right there. We had this. And so anytime you’ve got a game like that that you can do, and we let it get away from us. It’s frustrating.”
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