{"id":76875,"date":"2021-08-26T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=76875"},"modified":"2021-09-01T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:02:04","slug":"what-makes-brian-callahan-so-invaluable-to-zac-taylor-and-bengals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=76875","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Brian Callahan So Invaluable To Zac Taylor and Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; Calling plays in an NFL game isn\u2019t a one-man job. It hasn\u2019t been for a long time. Look no further than the Bengals to understand the unique relationship between a pair of coaches with Super Bowl experience on their resume.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Zac Taylor has the final call on gamedays but what\u2019s truly important to understand is the process that goes into every play, the voices in the room that have real input and the orchestration that figures into the compilation of all the choices on the menu that Taylor has in his hands on the sidelines. <\/p>\n<p>Brian Callahan has the title of offensive coordinator and, with the Bengals, that\u2019s literally his job. On many teams, the head coach entrusts the coordinator with designing and calling the plays. <\/p>\n<p>But in Cincinnati, where the head coach has an extensive background in working with offenses at the college and pro level, Taylor prefers to pull the trigger during the game. <\/p>\n<p>So then, what exactly does Callahan do for Taylor?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nice thing about having a head coach that calls the plays, they still have to do all the things that head coaches have to,\u201d Callahan told me. \u201cRoster management and he still has to worry about anything else that comes up, defense, special teams. Those things are all things that he has to think about during the week. So, he relies on me specifically to advance everything else. So, offensively I move forward with the plan and then he catches up as he has time.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked Brian Callahan what he sees as the biggest potential areas of improvement in Joe Burrow and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bengals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bengals<\/a> O. \u201cI still think we\u2019re looking for improvement down the field\u2026 I do think our intermediate game is as good as anyone\u2019s in football.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/As5Uo7t65I\">pic.twitter.com\/As5Uo7t65I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Petraglia (@Trags) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trags\/status\/1424063872701538304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both Callahan and Taylor have been offensive coaches on Super Bowl staffs, Callahan in 2013 and 2015 (Broncos) and Taylor 2018 (Rams). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe might not be in every meeting with the staff, I&#8217;ll run most of those they&#8217;ll catch up with whatever we do,\u201d Callahan adds. \u201cWhatever we\u2019ve got to catch up on. I do a lot of previewing of each situation. So, I\u2019ll put out a list of first, second down passes together, and it&#8217;s usually a really long list of things, and then I&#8217;ll get together on Tuesday night and take an hour and a half to go through and cut that list. He says I like these things here. I have these ideas. I&#8217;m going to put in here. We just kind of flow through the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conversation and communication are two key words to keep in mind when thinking about the working relationship between Taylor and Callahan. Conversation and communication lead to decisive decision-making on gameday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe helps balance things when I\u2019m not around and I\u2019m doing head coach things, and Frank (Pollack) is doing the run game. He does a good job of meshing that as well and making sure the communication is great,\u201d Taylor said of the invaluable service Callahan provides. \u201cI could probably talk for hours about the value that Brian has to our team because it is tremendous. And I think the players see that, how smart he is. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been around some of the most successful offenses in the history of football and he\u2019s seen some of the all-time greats do it. He knows what the standard should be and what it should look like. When he communicates with the group, it always hits the nail on the head because he\u2019s been there, done that. It\u2019s where we want to be, and he does an outstanding job for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In speaking with both for this look behind the curtain at what goes into play-calling, it\u2019s clear that the relationship works well. The results, as both will admit, haven\u2019t always been ideal but it\u2019s the process that must be refined and perfected before the engine starts firing at optimum RPMs. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what the first two seasons have been about for Taylor and Callahan, who have known each other a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think the same and what I mean by that is I could disappear for a few hours doing head coach things and he really just keeps things smooth and on track and by the time I get back it\u2019s not a different thought process of what I would\u2019ve followed myself,\u201d Taylor told me this week. \u201cAnd that\u2019s from our interactions over three years, that\u2019s from our interactions of 10 years of phone calls before that because we never worked together before that. Working summer camps together and talking ball and talking scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Taylor was putting together his staff after he was hired in January of 2019, he knew who one of his targeted hires would be. <\/p>\n<p>Callahan had just completed a season as quarterbacks coach with the Oakland Raiders and already had a Super Bowl ring with the 2015 Denver Broncos, working with two of the most brilliant minds in NFL offense, Gary Kubiak and Peyton Manning. And with Manning in particular, he knew one thing as the leader of the offense on the field stood above all else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreparations. His preparation was so maniacal,\u201d Callahan told me. \u201cSo detailed as a quarterback, he has to prepare just like the coordinator does, just like the play caller does. (He would) always think about the game plan, how we&#8217;re trying to attack, what we&#8217;re trying to attack, how we&#8217;re going to deploy our people against whatever they show us. And it&#8217;s a really intense way of going about it. The way he went about his business and the urgency of how you had to attack all those small things and make sure you&#8217;re all on the same page all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Taylor and Callahan understand clearly that being on the same page doesn\u2019t mean you agree all the time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we watch tape, that&#8217;s not to say we don&#8217;t disagree,\u201d Callahan said. \u201cWe have plenty of times where I like to play and I&#8217;ll stand up and fight for it, getting some idea and then it&#8217;ll work in the game. And then they say, \u2018good job\u2019 and vice versa out the plays that I don&#8217;t like it. He has that we may come up with a but whenever we&#8217;re done and we leave the room on the same page with what we&#8217;re going to do, for that meat for the game, and how we&#8217;re going to go attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Peyton Manning was leading the record-breaking Broncos offense from 2012-2015, Callahan was an offensive assistant to Kubiak and the Hall of Fame quarterback. Taylor wasn\u2019t afraid to tap into Callahan\u2019s access to some of the greatest offensive minds in the history of the game. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Why did Peyton Manning do this?\u2019 I remember texting him that all the time in 2014 or 2013,\u201d Taylor said. \u201c(Callahan) is not afraid to tell me what he thinks if I\u2019m screwed up in some way or if we should be doing things differently, which you have to have in this profession. There can\u2019t just be people telling you that you do a good job and everything\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the weekly meetings, every coach has the option to sell their unit, whether it\u2019s run-game coordinator Frank Pollack or wide receivers coach Troy Walters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be anything to the red zone and third down,\u201d Callahan said. \u201cEach one of our coaches has an area they&#8217;re responsible for, so they can pitch. Third down, Walters does Red Zone, whoever it is, we preview that area. We go through and we build the list, and the idea is to have a list of things to choose from and then Zac and I go through and then cut it down and make sure we we\u2019re fine, whatever it is we&#8217;re going to run. The good thing is that Zac and I see football very similarly. We see a lot of the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately when you get to game day, you&#8217;ve got a pretty good idea of how things are going to come off your call sheet for the most part. It&#8217;s not a whole lot of guessing when we get to game day. We&#8217;re all pretty much in lockstep with how we see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need people that can balance that for you. Brian absolutely does that,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cMaybe that comes from being a son of a coach, maybe that\u2019s just his personality, whatever it is, he\u2019s just got the right tone about him to where he makes sure we\u2019re always doing things the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Callahan\u2019s father, of course, is Bill Callahan, someone with his own extensive and successful pedigree in the game. Bill Callahan, who serves now as the offensive line coach in Cleveland, coached quarterback Rich Gannon and the Oakland Raiders to their last Super Bowl in 2002. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s probably no one has had a bigger impact outside (the game),\u201d the younger Callahan told me. \u201cHe\u2019s the most impactful person in my career, just outside of being my father, just as my just as a mentor and he&#8217;s seen so much. He&#8217;s coached for so long. He&#8217;s been a head coach. He&#8217;s called plays, he&#8217;s been in college (Nebraska). He&#8217;s done it all at a really high level for a long time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the things that he says, the advice, he gives the perspective that he has on things where I might get real mad about something and I might be all bent out of shape about how something went that game and he just goes, \u2018mad for, what? Is that going to do to help me? What did you what do you do to fix it? How do you fix the problem?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those are the words Callahan is most likely to apply now, knowing everything he does over his first two seasons in Cincinnati. It\u2019s not so much about what went wrong but making adjustments in games and move forward. It\u2019s making adjustments week to week so your offense is playing its best and most meaningful football after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>If you think father and son talk shop a lot, think again. Besides the obvious that they\u2019re on separate sides of a very intense AFC North rivalry, father and son keep their conversations to life\u2019s lessons, not strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s always been a huge, huge influence even till now, we don&#8217;t talk about each other&#8217;s teams very often, try to keep those things out of our conversations, but just general football, career advice, wisdom, all those things,\u201d the younger Callahan said. \u201cHuge, huge, huge role in my development, as a coach and helped me get to where I&#8217;m at and will continue to help me for all the years that I do this. I&#8217;m sure.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; Calling plays in an NFL game isn\u2019t a one-man job. It hasn\u2019t been for a long time. Look no further than the Bengals to understand the unique relationship between a pair of coaches with Super Bowl experience on their resume. 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