Three years ago, it was one of the biggest jokes in football.
If you ever had a cup of coffee with Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay, you had a good chance of becoming an NFL head coach yourself. Three years ago, the Cincinnati Bengals hired Zac Taylor to be their coach after he spent two seasons coaching wide receivers and then quarterbacks under McVay.
Whether that constituted a cup of coffee or something more substantial, nobody is laughing at that hire now as Taylor will face McVay in Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 13 (6:30 p.m. ET, NBC).
“Working with Sean was two of the best years of my life,” Taylor said. “It was fun. You loved coming into the building every single day. That’s a lot of our messaging to our building and our staff and our players.
“We want guys who are willing to come in here and work, but they enjoy the process of walking into this building with a smile on their face…
