{"id":812881,"date":"2026-03-15T01:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/812881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:30:17","slug":"jake-browning-breaks-silence-on-what-went-wrong-with-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/812881\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Browning breaks silence on what went wrong with Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 14, 2026, 6:03 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> quarterback Jake Browning has a new home in NFL free agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Browning signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this week, where he will slot into the depth chart behind Baker Mayfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While doing so, Browning briefly touched on what went wrong with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI played well in 2023 and I thought I was going to be the one to save us. I forced some throws which was dumb and trying to do too much was the big takeaway, \u201d Browning said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFLSTROUD\/status\/2032519285109596299?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rick Stroud<\/a> of the Tampa Bay Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So, not anything that Bengals fans didn\u2019t see for themselves last season, but it\u2019s still interesting to hear him touch on the topic at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Bengals chose not to re-up with Browning at all this offseason despite easily being able to do so, which sort of speaks to where things stood for the parties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Last season, Browning struggled to the point the Bengals left their usual comfort zone and got aggressive with the trade for Joe Flacco while trying to keep the season alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/14\/nfl-free-agency-bengals-find-joe-burrow-new-backup\/89153332007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals found Joe Burrow\u2019s new backup in free agency<\/a>, at least until Flacco potentially decides to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 14, 2026, 6:03 p.m. ET Former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Jake Browning has a new home in NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,95882,96861,95913,96121,96119,95896,95888,95897,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-812881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","16":"tag-sstsnbengals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbaker-mayfield","19":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","20":"tag-tagjoe-burrow","21":"tag-tagjoe-flacco","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116230607813736807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812881","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=812881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}