Eighteen minutes.
That’s the amount of time Zac Taylor has spent in person with the guy he just staked his professional livelihood to. And that it’s just 18 minutes is pretty remarkable, given all the connections these guys have.
Taylor’s a former Nebraska football player, as are Joe Burrow’s dad, Jimmy, and brothers, Jamie and Dan—Taylor having landed in the program the semester (spring 2005) after Dan finished up (fall 2004). Taylor also remembers crossing paths with Jimmy when the two were recruiting at Colerain High in Cincinnati, Taylor for the University of Cincinnati and Burrow for Ohio University in 2016.