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Joe Burrow Looked Super Frustrated in Tense Sideline Conversation With Zac Taylor

The Bengals got out of Tennessee with a win.

Josh Wilson

Burrow and Taylor engaged in a conversation during the fourth quarter of the Bengals' Week 15 game
Burrow and Taylor engaged in a conversation during the fourth quarter of the Bengals' Week 15 game / Screengrab, @JoeyDeBerardino on X
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The Cincinnati Bengals will leave Nashville with another win under their belts, improving to 6-8 with a 37-27 win over the Tennessee Titans. Burrow had himself another strong performance with three touchdowns on 271 passing yards, but he did have two interceptions to go along with the highlights.

As the game was winding down, Burrow and his head coach, Zac Taylor were engaged in a conversation on the sideline that looked tense:

Burrow looked extremely frustrated, despite the Bengals having just scored a touchdown on a drive that brought the clock all the way down to 1:09.

It's unclear exactly what had Burrow frustrated, but seemingly, something wasn't clicking to his liking on the drive. The drive featured two back-to-back unforced errors on the Bengals, with a delay of game and then false start penalty that took the Bengals from the Titans' one-yard line to their 10-yard line. After that, the Bengals fed running back Chase Brown on three straight plays (no gain, five-yard gain, five-yard gain)—he crossed the end-zone line on the third attempt.

The Bengals are still in the hunt for a playoff spot, with a likelihood of three percent to reach the postseason going into Week 15. They need every win to stay alive.

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Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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