Walking in the shoes of a non-playcalling offensive coordinator with Bengals OC Dan Pitcher
6/18/20261 hr 14 min
The success of coaches like Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay has created a group of coaches that, at one time in the recent past, were quite rare...non-playcalling offensive coordinators. Fully half the league will have offensive coordinators who don't call plays on gameday this season. So, what exactly do they do? Bengals OC Dan Pitcher, who works under head coach and playcaller Zac Taylor, takes us through it all on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown:
0:00 Welcome to the show
2:10 Background reporting on OCs
29:22 Dan Pitcher joins<...
Clips
Transcript preview
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Robert Mays· Host1:20
Welcome to "The Athletic Football Show." I'm Robert Mays. Slightly different kind of show for you guys today, but one that I'm very excited about.