Cincinnati Bengals Senior Defensive Assistant Mark Duffner Talks AFC Championship & Super Bowl LVI

After a playing career at William & Mary, Mark Duffner began a coaching career as a graduate assistant under Ohio State head coach Woody Hayes for two seasons before making his first stop in Cincinnati as defensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Bearcats (1977-1980).

After becoming a head coach at the college level for 16 seasons, Duffner returned to the Queen City to start a 25-year coaching career in the NFL starting as a linebackers coach (1997-2000) and defensive coordinator (2001-2002) for the Cincinnati Bengals and with stops in Green Bay, Jacksonville, Miami, and Tampa Bay before rejoining the Bengals in 2019 as a senior defensive assistant coach.

Coach Duffner joins Dave Lapham In The Trenches presented by First Star Logistics to discuss his Football Life, the joy of being part of this Bengals team led by quarterback Joe Burrow who plays with a defensive mentality, the play of Sam Hubbard, Trey Hendrickson, and B.J. Hill, watching Bengals owner Mike Brown being presented the AFC Championship Trophy, and journey to his first Super Bowl.