Dan Pitcher will be sticking with the Bengals. Per Ian Rapoport of NFL.com, Cincinnati has signed its quarterbacks coach to a lucrative contract extension that will take him through at least the 2023 season.
Pitcher, 36, interviewed for the Buccaneers’ open offensive coordinator position on Friday, which was the first time in his career he had been connected to a coordinator post. Rapoport says that the Ravens also inquired on Pitcher, but rather than risk losing him to another club, the Bengals made a proactive move to reward one of their most important staffers.
Pitcher broke into the professional coaching ranks in 2016 as an offensive assistant on the staff of former Cincinnati HC Marvin Lewis. When Zac Taylor took over as the Bengals’ head coach in 2019, he retained Pitcher and promoted him to assistant quarterbacks coach. Pitcher became the club’s top quarterbacks coach the following year, and his work with 2020 No. 1 overall pick Joe Burrow over the past three seasons is starting to pique the interest of other organizations.
Burrow, of course, has become one of the league’s best signal-callers and could be in line for a market-topping extension this offseason. He has the Bengals on the cusp of their second consecutive Super Bowl appearance, and assuming the team continues to thrive in 2023, Pitcher will likely garner more OC looks.
Of course, the Bengals’ own offensive coordinator, Brian Callahan, has generated some HC buzz, and Pitcher could fill Callahan’s seat in Cincinnati if the latter should land a job as a bench boss elsewhere.
Great to see. Many would consider him to be more important than Callahan. Looks like Bengals will retain the major names on their coaching staff again next season. Amazing continuity for a franchise that is on fire.
Callahan will get HC gig sooner than later and Pitch will get the bump to OC. Wonder if they know something about the Colts?
They should hire a discipline coach. They’ve been missing that for 25+ years.
Seriously?
The Bengals are consistently one of the least penalized teams in the league, and I can’t remember the last time a Bengals player was in trouble with the law. ♂️
The Chris-Henry-Odell-Thurman-PacMan-Jones-Mugshot-Parade ended years ago.
Catch up.
Oh no, that did not end ‘years ago’ considering they literally just made an awful penalty *again* to lose in the playoffs. Then one of their players caught on camera screaming basically at said player who made the bonehead penalty. Not to mention they shouldn’t of beat the 2nd string Ravens QB to begin with. Discipline doesn’t just mean off the field, and on it they’ll ALWAYS be the boneheaded Bengals.