{"id":664062,"date":"2026-01-08T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/664062\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:22:12","slug":"bengals-news-1-8-dan-pitcher-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/664062\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals News (1\/8): Dan Pitcher Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pitcher has been Cincinnati\u2019s OC since 2024. He was promoted from quarterbacks coach, the job he held from 2020-23, after former OC Brian Callahan left to become the HC of the Tennessee Titans. Callahan was fired by Tennessee during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The best player in the NFL. Hands down. Hands up. One hand. Two hands. Doesn\u2019t matter. With 125 catches and 1,412 yards in this season of three quarterbacks, an array of gadget defenses and a new captain\u2019s C, he kept churning gold-jacket numbers with blue-collar efficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou\u2019re fun to watch,\u201d Burrow said after shaking Sanders\u2019 hand on the field following the loss. \u201cYou\u2019re fun to watch. Look forward to watching you next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Enter Caleb Downs, the extremely talented Ohio State safety, who possesses the skills to potentially be an elite deep safety. He\u2019s an ideal fit for the Bengals defense and is already one of the most-popular picks for the team in mock drafts across the media landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitcher has been Cincinnati\u2019s OC since 2024. He was promoted from quarterbacks coach, the job he held from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,1561,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-664062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115860166749824855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}