Brian Callahan on Joe Burrow Entering Year 4: 'Almost Become More Like A Coach'

Cincinnati has one of the NFL's best quarterbacks.

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Russ Heltman
Publish date:
Jun 26, 2023 7:51 AM EDT

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CINCINNATI — Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan popped on the Locked On Bengals podcast this week and discussed how Joe Burrow's mental acumen has sharpened in the Bengals system as he enters Year 4.

Burrow is almost a player-coach on the field with his mastery of the offensive language.

"It's fun for me this year with Burrow it's been, we get to these meetings and we watch 7-on-7 together," Callahan said. "Joe almost coaches those guys, he's very clear on what he expects from certain routes, where he wants guys to be the timing that it happens. It's really fun to listen to him explain to everybody what he wants. So when he's making a coaching point to Irv Smith. At some point, all the tight ends are supposed to hear that.

"When he's talking to Ja'Marr (Chase) about something all those young receivers are gonna hear it. And so, that part's really fun because he's got mastery over our system now, which is a really cool thing to watch him grow in that and be able to almost become more like a coach."

Burrow is one of the most football self-aware quarterbacks in the NFL as he nixed his heavy-sack problem midseason in 2022.

He's the most accurate quarterback in NFL history, so Burrow doesn't have a ton of mechanical things to improve as he keeps working on the endless amount of football knowledge a star quarterback can build on.

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