Bengals fans will like this Zac Taylor insight from an NFL executive originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.This offseason, the Cincinnati Bengals made a few big moves in free agency to bolster the defensive side of the ball.Boye Mafe, Bryan Cook, and Jonathan Allen were all added to help improve the defense from 2025, which was among the worst in the NFL.Following those moves, one NFL executive, according to Mike Sando of The Athletic, believes that those signings point to 2026 being potentially Zac Taylor's final straw, which Bengals fans who have been calling for Taylor to be fired will surely love to hear.2026 might be Zac Taylor's final chance"They knew they had to fix some stuff on defense," one NFL executive said. "It looks like they are saying, 'You guys have one year to figure this out. Otherwise, we can get out of the coach's contract.'"While the Bengals might've made a few big moves this offseason to fix the defensive side of the ball, this might be the Bengals' long-time head coach's last chance.A bad 2026, and Taylor might be out of a job. He's reportedly signed through the 2027 season, though there's been no confirmation from the Bengals about how long he's actually under contract for.More:Boye Mafe signing mightve been a mistake by the BengalsWhile Mafe, Allen, and Cook should help the defense, and with the 10th pick and a few more Day 2 selections, the defense could get some major help this offseason overall.But, if 2026 doesn't work out, and it's another wasted year of Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase in their prime, this NFL executive believes Taylor might be out of a job.The struggles this past season had some fans hoping 2025 would be Taylor's last year with the Bengals.And while this is merely speculation from an anonymous NFL executive, this insight does open the door more-so than before that 2026 might be Taylor's final year as the Bengals head coach if things go south.More Bengals news:Caleb Downs would be a perfect pick for Bengals at No. 10Bengals' Joe Flacco calls other teams 'dumb' for not signing him in free agencyTee Higgins is Bengals most overpaid playerBengals fans should be confident in $40M Bryan Cook signing for 60% reasonJoe Flacco re-signs with Bengals instead of joining Raiders

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. On the eve of the tipoff to the Final Four, the president of the United States may be making a splash.College leaders are bracing for a Friday release of President Donald Trumps latest executive order to regulate college sports.Multiple sources with knowledge of the order spoke to Yahoo Sports under condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to divulge details of the document. Though it is scheduled for release Friday, it is common for such plans to be delayed.Either way, the order is expected in the coming days, at the very least, as the NCAAs crown jewel the mens basketball tournament reaches its pinnacle event here in central Indiana.The order intends to limit athlete transfer movement, cap player eligibility, require funding requirements for women and Olympic sports, and regulate NIL collectives. As an enforcement lever, past iterations of the order relied on the reduction of a universitys federal funding an incentive for schools and conferences to abide by the concepts.However, some of the orders provisions have been already struck down by federal and district courts, putting college sports leaders in an awkward position follow orders from the executive branch while ignoring the judicial system.Many including the president himself expect the order to be challenged legally.President Donald Trump gestures as former head coach Nick Saban (R) speaks alongside U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during a roundtable discussion on college sports on March 6. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Anna Moneymaker via Getty ImagesPerhaps the most significant concepts in the document are efforts to regulate athlete movement and compensation.The order is expected to place strict guardrails around booster-backed NIL collectives and limit the movement of transfers, possibly even reinstating the NCAAs one-time transfer rule one that courts have deemed unlawful. The rule would permit athletes to transfer once before requiring them to miss one season as a penalty for any subsequent moves.The orders exact language around transfers is unclear as the document has undergone several iterations and drafts over the last month. The language is key as thousands of players some of whom have already transferred once are preparing to enter the basketball portal, which opens Tuesday.The order is expected to define an athletes length of eligibility as well a critical topic that even the most ardent NCAA detractors believe should be regulated. In the last year, more than 70 athletes have filed suit against the governing body, as players use state and local judges to grant them an extension of their eligibility beyond the NCAAs standard four seasons of competition over five years. The NCAA has spent $16 million alone on eligibility cases.The order is expected to require schools to fund womens and Olympic sports at a certain level a focus for Trump, who believes that non-revenue programs are being eliminated or at least defunded, as schools shift more resources to football and mens basketball in an intense and competitive recruiting environment where compensation has been legalized.But the orders true impact remains unclear and is in doubt considering that Trumps previous executive order, released in July, has created no real results within the industry. This one, however, is more comprehensive and direct as opposed to the last one, which only directed his cabinet members to create rules which never materialized.Executive orders are subject to legal scrutiny, especially those that disregard court orders. In fact, courts have struck down several of the presidents orders over the last several months, rendering them moot and unenforceable. In a White House roundtable event last month, the president himself predicted that any order would be legally challenged. He said that he hoped for a favorable judge.Why cant the industry go back to the old system? Trump asked a room of dignitaries at the March 6 roundtable event. Id like to go exactly back to what we had and ram it through a court.Like the roundtable event itself, the order is likely geared toward bringing attention to the issue in effort to pressure Congressional lawmakers to reach an agreement on a more concrete solution: legislation. Thats something of which lawmakers have failed to do in seven years of lobbying from the NCAA for a bill to, most notably, permit college sports leaders to enact and enforce rules without them being legally challenged in other words, an antitrust exemption.However, divide rages among those on either side of the aisle over an issue that many originally thought to be bipartisan in nature. That hasnt proven to be true.Republicans support a more narrow NCAA-leaning bill with athlete restrictions; Democrats, many of them harsh critics of the NCAA and power conference leadership, are supporting a more broad bill with athlete freedoms.Despite confidence from Republican leadership in the House, the Republican-authored SCORE Act the one piece of all-encompassing legislation to emerge from a committee has twice failed to reach the House floor for a vote. Lawmakers are working to bring SCORE to the floor by the months end, but they continue the process of whipping votes. Holding a slim House majority, Republicans cannot afford to lose their own members, some of whom oppose portions of the bill.Even if it advances out of the House, SCORE needs significant modifications to pass a U.S. Senate that requires a 60-vote margin for approval of legislation. That means seven Democrats voting in favor of the measure a tall task.In the Senate, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wa.) are holding separate negotiations over a bill, though if past discussions are any indication, the two disagree on a wide variety of bill concepts, most notably government oversight of college sports, athlete employment and the breadth of antitrust protections.Meanwhile, five presidential committees made up of college sports stakeholders, business executives and other dignitaries began meeting this week with the goal of informing congressional legislation. Each committee is charged with studying an issue, plus a sixth group, an oversight committee, to review their work.The oversight committee includes six presidents/chancellors from Georgia, Nebraska, Tennessee, Kansas, Utah and North Carolina, plus former Clemson president Jim Clements, Cody Campbell, Randy Levine and Gov. Ron DeSantis. The five issues committees are Legislative (work with Congress for federal antitrust protection), Rules (determine NIL, portal, eligibility standards), NCAA Reform (future governance), Media (media rights and SBA), and Player-Agent relationship issues.Commissioners from the SEC, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and American and Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua are assigned to Rules, Media and NCAA Reform committees as well as many other notable names, including Nick Saban, Condoleezza Rice and Adam Silver.

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