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Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor was not pleased when NFL officers stopped play to mark Myles Garrett’s historic twenty third sack of the season within the group’s 20-18 loss to the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.
Taylor fumed on the stoppage, which got here late within the fourth quarter with simply over 5 minutes remaining, saying after the sport that he was by no means informed sport officers deliberate to cease play if Garrett hit the mark to turn out to be the NFL’s single-season sack chief.
Cleveland Browns defensive finish Myles Garrett (95) sacks Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) throughout the fourth quarter at Paycor Stadium. The play set a brand new NFL single season sack report by Garrett. (Joseph Maiorana/Imagn Pictures)
“There’s 5 minutes left in our season. We’re taking part in for our lives out right here and I used to be by no means informed that we’re going to cease the sport and in a vital second like that,” he informed reporters after the sport. “And the refs simply stated that they decided that they have been going to cease the sport they usually stated that they tried to do it as rapidly as attainable – I didn’t really feel that.”
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The Bengals had already been formally eradicated final month after a 24-0 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Week 15. Nonetheless, Taylor stated the group was taking part in to win.
“We didn’t sub. We’re attempting to be on the ball and go and play with tempo, and the umpire simply held the ball in order that we couldn’t do something. And I’m yelling at Joe [Burrow] to get on the ball. We didn’t sub, we’re going after which we couldn’t play.”
Taylor stated that within the assembly with refs earlier than kickoff, he was “by no means knowledgeable” of their plans.
Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns is carried by teammates after the sack throughout the fourth quarter of the sport towards the Cincinnati Bengals at Paycor Stadium on Jan. 4, 2026 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Dylan Buell/Getty Pictures)
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“Making an attempt to get a solution was not simple. They simply stated that they decided as a crew to cease the sport if that occurred. I suppose it didn’t matter when it occurred, they have been simply going to cease the sport and let it occur.
“I used to be by no means knowledgeable of that. They didn’t say one phrase.”
Garrett got here into the sport needing one sack to surpass the mark of twenty-two.5, shared by New York Giants nice and Soccer Corridor of Famer Michael Strahan and Pittsburgh Steelers star T.J. Watt in 2021.
Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor speaks at a information convention after an NFL sport towards the Cleveland Browns in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photograph/Jeff Dean)
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With minutes remaining within the closing sport of the season, Garrett noticed his alternative with Burrow on first-and-10 on the Browns’ 45-yard line.
“It was every little thing I anticipated. It was so robust. I knew they have been going to make it troublesome,” Garrett stated. “I don’t suppose I noticed greater than three singles on an actual drop-back the entire sport. And I simply knew that if I did, I’ve to make that second rely. And the sensation couldn’t be higher.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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