“A few times last year I wasn’t maybe all the way myself as far as consistency,” says Brown, who overcame a slow start in 2025. “I found my groove in November through the rest of the season. There was a spurt I could point to in the last five games and say that has to be the best football I’ve played as a Bengal. I’ve always been a guy better in November and December than September and October.<\/p>\n
“My biggest focus going into this season is to be physically and mentally in a good spot.”<\/p>\n
Pro Football Focus charged Brown with seven sacks in last season’s first 10 games. While no NFL tackle had more pass blocks and more one-on-one pass blocks than Brown last season, PFF says he allowed just two sacks and five hits in the last seven games.<\/p>\n
It’s not lost on him that one of those sacks was Browns edge Myles Garrett’s record 23rd sack. On a day right outside his door at Paycor, Brown pretty much went toe-to-toe with a first-ballot Hall of Famer on 40 pass reps and allowed a sack and a hit, via PFF. Consider the previous seven games, when Garrett had 12 sacks and nine hits.<\/p>\n
But the record replay has been run and run this offseason, and it seems like Brown has seen every one of them where Garrett gets by. Such is the life of an offensive lineman.<\/p>\n
“It’s right there in front of my mind. It was one of our last pass-pro snaps of the year,” Brown says. “It’s always fresh in my mind and probably will be the rest of my life. Absolutely, I use it as motivation. That’s O-line play. To me, it’s all about consistency. Just being as clean as possible for a full 60 minutes.”<\/p>\n
Already regarded a locker-room leader, Brown says he’ll expand that role this season. He sees himself talking more to the team as a group.<\/p>\n
“It’s important that every team has that kind of guy,” Brown says. “I feel like I’ve taken on that responsibility since I’ve been here. Now to take it to the next level and being more vocal than I already have been. Doing it even more would carry more weight.”<\/p>\n
It seems like these days, the bigger the weight, he can lift it. Keep the one-on-ones coming, he says.<\/p>\n
“Taking the approach we would take on a Sunday,” Brown says after another Paycor lift. “I love what I do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“A few times last year I wasn’t maybe all the way myself as far as consistency,” says Brown,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[42386,45454,45453,8943,43990,139,141,140,49480],"class_list":{"0":"post-231894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-42386","9":"tag-centerpiece","10":"tag-hobson","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-latest-stories","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-quick-hits"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}