Bengals OC Brian Callahan Praises Jake Browning
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00:00 It's been fun to coach, it's been fun to watch him.
00:01 He's so intentional about his work during the week,
00:05 and he spends a ton of time on it.
00:09 And it turns out he's actually a pretty good player too.
00:12 And so, you know, those are all things you don't know
00:14 sometimes until you get put in the moment.
00:16 There's a lot of guys that have been around
00:18 that have been really good practice players
00:19 that don't play like Jake's played.
00:23 But I think you just look at his track record
00:25 of his success he's had over his career,
00:28 and it turns out that maybe it's not a fluke.
00:30 You know, maybe he's just a really pretty good quarterback.
00:34 But I'm happy for his success, it's been great for us.
00:37 And he's really done everything you could ever ask
00:40 of a guy to come in and play.
00:41 I mean, he's played as good as you could ask him to play.
00:45 It's been fantastic.
00:46 And the guys around him, I think,
00:48 have played really well too.
00:49 I mean, we've gotten a lot of production from a lot of guys
00:52 and a lot of good play around him as well.
00:54 So we have our work cut out for us this week though.
00:57 - Has he been any different during this stretch
00:59 than he is when he's the backup?
01:01 Obviously he's doing much more.
01:03 - No, his personality is pretty consistent
01:07 as I think you guys are probably,
01:08 as you talk to him in the press conference,
01:09 he doesn't move the needle much either way.
01:12 You know, that's just how he is.
01:15 And I think you learn to be like that over time
01:18 because his journey has been probably much harder
01:21 than some others.
01:22 And so you have to learn how to cope with that.
01:26 There's a lot of disappointment involved
01:28 when you're getting cut
01:29 and you're deciding if you're gonna play anymore
01:31 to go into this role
01:32 where you're starting football games in the NFL.
01:34 And so I think you develop a consistency
01:38 to your personality so you don't ride the wave
01:40 of what can be pretty emotional sometimes.
01:42 And I think you're seeing a little bit of the effects
01:44 of that and how he reacts, but he doesn't flinch, man.
01:47 I think that's probably one of the best compliments
01:48 you can give a guy when he goes in is he's the same guy
01:51 and he goes in and plays football and doesn't scare him
01:54 and he's not afraid of it.
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