Press Conference: Zac Taylor Reacts to Bengals’ Madrid Arrival, Preparing for Falcons & More

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Zac Taylor (0:38)

In Canta, Madrid. That's all I got.

We've been working a lot. I think the players have probably gotten out a little bit more, but we came over here yesterday and just walked around the facility. Pretty neat, beautiful city from what I've seen so far. Look forward to experiencing it a little bit more over the next couple of days.

SPEAKER_3 (1:01)

Zac, how much of what you're going through right now as a team is getting your feet under you? How much of it is actually getting ready for the game?

Zac Taylor (1:11)

We're doing everything we can to get ready for the game and keep our normal schedule to where they're hearing the same things that they usually hear in the same rhythm weekly. I'm sure over the next day and a half, we'll get our feet underneath us, you know, as we have two real practices. But I think like anybody, your body is adjusting right now, as you just got here on Wednesday morning.

So the reason we got here so early was so that we feel as good as we can feel on game day.

SPEAKER_4 (1:39)

How close are you guys to the team you wanted to be at the end of the season?

Zac Taylor (1:43)

Well, I think as long as we continue to improve over the course of the year, that's our number one goal. Obviously, we haven't played like a full start to finish game, the way that we envision we can.

That can be a good thing for us right now, you know, that we're sitting where we're at, and that opportunity is still in front of us. So, our guys did some good work. I like their attitudes. I like their mindset right now, and do our best to play our best game on Sunday.

SPEAKER_5 (2:07)

Zac, I know you guys were wanting guys to get out, see the city yesterday, do that. How did you try to urge them to do that, and did you get any reports back on the experiences?

Zac Taylor (2:17)

No, I have not. I'm sure they have their own, you know, but so far, my communications with them have been mostly football.

But again, yesterday, the guys had an opportunity to walk around and go eat dinner and enjoy all the things that Madrid has to offer. And I would imagine most of them did that.

SPEAKER_6 (2:36)

Which are your references, because it was the first day for you here of Spanish sport in general?

Zac Taylor (2:45)

Spain won the World Cup, right? I was here yesterday looking for it. It's not here. It's traveling around Spain. I learned that. It's on a little tour of Spain. But I did my best to find it.

I know it's a big soccer country. That's their number one sport. I'm not quite sure how much they know about our game yet. Hopefully they'll learn a lot over the course of this week. It's a fun one.

That's about all I got for you on that.

SPEAKER_7 (3:17)

This team is saying that they would like to come to the European venues two days ahead of the game rather than spend the whole week here. What's your opinion? Who says that? This team is not saying that they would rather come to the two European venues that couple of days ahead and not spend the whole week in the European venue.

Zac Taylor (3:36)

I think this is the best compromise we found to make sure that we can get acclimated by really Friday, get a really good practice, where we feel better. And then play our best on Sunday. So we've all embraced that mindset and I think it's working well for us so far.

SPEAKER_5 (3:51)

Do you expect DJ Territor to get some work out of you?

Zac Taylor (3:55)

Yeah, we'll see. Well, I think some of our guys will be on a limited basis. We'll see how they feel when they get out there.

SPEAKER_6 (4:01)