Last week, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett said that Green Bay Packers fans making the trip out west forced the Cardinals’ offense to have to use their silent count at home. This isn’t anything new for the Packers, one of the bigger fan bases in the league, but it does seem to be a recurring theme for the 2025 season.
Bengals’ Zac Taylor explains 2nd-down run on final drive of 39-38 loss to Jets
Posted October 27, 2025
CINCINNATI (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER) -Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor was asked after the team’s fourth-quarter collapse and 39-38 loss to the New York Jets about a play call on 2nd-and-10 from the Bengals’ 44-yard line with 42 seconds remaining in the game that resulted in a 1-yard run by Samaje Perine.
“The first-down play - I gotta jog my memory on the second-down play,” Taylor told reporters. “Second down, we’d had some success running in that situation. Obviously, it’s not good when they’re up in there and they jam it up on you, and then the third down didn’t work. We just didn’t get it going.”
Perine had nine carries for 94 rushing yards with a touchdown in the loss.
The Bengals were outscored 23-7 in the final quarter. Cincinnati had led the previously winless Jets 31-16.
“It’s still a long season,” Taylor said. “This is gonna be a difficult season for a lot of teams, and so you just got to be in the thick of it, give yourself an opportunity. This is one that we had right in our grasp, and that’s the disappointing part about it. We were right there. We had this. And so anytime you’ve got a game like that that you can do, and we let it get away from us. It’s frustrating.”
Aaron Rodgers said Packers fans forced the Steelers into the silent count
Rodgers also gave an evaluation of Green Bay QB Jordan Love in his post-game press conference.
When asked about the “Go Pack Go” chants in Pittsburgh on Sunday night in his post-game press conference, former Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, now the signal caller for the Steelers, said the following:
“I’ve heard that chant for 18 years. Packers fans travel really well. First time in a while I’ve used silent count for a home game. It’s a credit to those Packers fans.”
So congrats to those of you who made the trip out to western PA for the game. You guys made a difference in this one.
Beyond just talking silent count, Rodgers added that he believed that the Steelers didn’t get as much out of their play-action game as they had expected, based on what they had done previously this season. He also gave this evaluation of quarterback Jordan Love’s 29 of 37 for 360 yards and three touchdowns performance:
“I thought J Love played great. He was super efficient. You know, he didn’t get sacked, moved around really well, made some plays outside the pocket. Thought he played outstanding.”
Later, Rodgers mentioned that Love was playing “opportunistic” in the game, consistently taking checkdowns and run alerts when given good looks for those plays. That’s probably one reason why Love was able to make 20 straight completions on Sunday, a mark that tied Brett Favre for the most consecutive completions ever in Packers history.
