Why Bengals coach Zac Taylor was upset after Myles Garrett’s record-breaking sack

CINCINNATI, Ohio — When Browns protect extremity Myles Garrett sacked Bengals backmost Joe Burrow successful nan 4th fourth of Sunday’s 20-18 Cleveland win, Browns players poured onto nan section of Paycor Stadium.

Garrett became nan NFL’s single-season sack grounds holder pinch sack No. 23.

However, location was thing astir nan infinitesimal that disappointment Bengals coach Zac Taylor.

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The crippled stopped, but he claimed aft nan crippled that he wasn’t told by nan officials location were plans to extremity nan crippled to observe Garrett’s record-breaking moment.

"I was ne'er informed of that,“ Taylor said. ”They didn’t opportunity 1 word. We meet pinch them successful nan 90-minute gathering earlier nan game. They ne'er said 1 connection astir that.”

The sack happened pinch 5:04 near successful nan 4th fourth pinch nan Bengals trailing, 17-12, and trying to get into nan lead.

Taylor wanted immoderate tempo from his discourtesy but claimed nan officials didn’t fto that happen.

“There’s 5 minutes near successful our season. We’re playing for our lives here,” Taylor said. “And I was ne'er told that we’re going to extremity nan game, and successful a captious infinitesimal for illustration that. And nan refs conscionable said that they made a determination that they were going to extremity nan game. And they said they tried to do it arsenic quickly arsenic possible. I didn’t consciousness that. We didn’t sub. We’re trying to beryllium connected nan shot and spell and play pinch tempo. And nan umpire conscionable held nan shot truthful that we couldn’t do anything.

“And I’m yelling astatine (quarterback) Joe (Burrow), ‘Get connected nan ball.’ We didn’t sub, we’re going and past we couldn’t play. And truthful again, trying to get an reply was not easy. They conscionable said that they made a determination arsenic a unit to extremity nan crippled erstwhile that happened. I conjecture it didn’t matter erstwhile it happened. They were going to extremity nan crippled and fto it happen.”

The crippled timepiece stopped for 32 seconds to fto nan Browns observe Garrett’s history-making moment.

The Bengals were forced to punt 3 plays aft nan sack.

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Tim Bielik been portion of cleveland.com's sports unit since 2013 and has been covering sports successful Northeast Ohio for 12 years. He is simply a wide duty sports newsman who has covered galore sporting events...