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Of the eight jobs that were available in the 2019 hiring cycle John Miller Jersey , many would have put Cincinnati at or near the bottom. One guy didn’t.Coincidentally, he’s the one who got the job.Zac Taylor tells Peter King of that Taylor viewed the Bengals job as the best of the bunch.鈥淎 lot of coaches wouldn鈥檛 look at this place the way I did among the jobs that were available this year,” Taylor said. “For me Cheap Trey Hopkins Jersey , this would be close to the number one job. . . .聽No. This IS the number one job. It鈥檚 exactly what I want in a coaching job, everything I hoped for.”Taylor spent a year in the city working for the University of Cincinnati, and he said that he and his wife “fell in love” with the town. He also believes in the Bengals organization.“The Brown family is very big on loyalty in a cut-throat Clayton Fejedelem Jersey Limited , bottom-line, dog-eat-dog league, when often you might just get two years to turn a program around William Jackson Jersey Limited ,” Taylor said. “I just felt this was the right place at the right time. They hadn鈥檛 changed coaches in 16 years, and if they were going to change, this organization had the values I embraced.”The son-in-law of former Packers coach Mike Sherman Preston Brown Jersey , Sherman advised Taylor to be himself. That’s becoming a common theme among NFL coaches. Whether they succeed or not, the carousel will spin every year — and multiple coaches will end up no longer being coaches.Although the Bengals may be more patient than other teams, Taylor will need to win a certain number of games in order to remain employed over the long haul. The Bengals won’t have A.J. Green back on the field this season and they may have lost another starting wideout for the last two weeks of the year.Tyler Boyd had to leave Sunday’s win over the Raiders with a knee injury and Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Boyd has been diagnosed with a sprained MCL. Such injuries typically cost players time and that may mean we’ve seen the last of Boyd this season.Boyd caught four passes for 38 yards and a touchdown on Sunday before his injury. The touchdown was his seventh of the year and Boyd passed 1 Ryan Finley Jersey ,000 receiving yards for the first time in his career thanks to Sunday’s catches.The Bengals’ fate has already been set, but Boyd’s absence could still impact the playoff race in the AFC. The Browns and Steelers are both still alive — Pittsburgh has more life than Cleveland — and a depleted Cincinnati receiving corps shouldn’t hurt their chances of getting the wins they need.