Joe Burrow Evolving for Cincinnati Bengals
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00:00And you just got to say it out loud, they forced six turnovers on Sunday.
00:02Six.
00:03They won by 10.
00:06They should have won by 55.
00:08They should have.
00:09But Joe threw two picks.
00:10You had the fumble.
00:12And then you fumble again with Jordan Batto on what should have easily been a touchdown.
00:17Like just the discipline or lack thereof of this team at times has hurt them.
00:22They're disciplined to do the little things right.
00:24Tackling.
00:25They're disciplined to get the play in.
00:27You hear Zach talk about the headset.
00:30It's embarrassing, Joe said.
00:32You can see it on it.
00:33It's embarrassing.
00:34It doesn't matter about the headset going in and out.
00:36Just get the play into me so we can go.
00:38I'm sure that was his mindset.
00:39Let's just go, man.
00:41I'm the one reading the play at the beginning.
00:43The way it works is Joe's given a play and then he's reading the defense and he'll change
00:47the play if he needs to.
00:49Absolutely.
00:50So just give him a play.
00:53And so yeah, I get the frustration.
00:56Understand it.
00:58My big takeaway, my main takeaway from it isn't that Zach has lost the team.
01:03It's not that Joe Burrow hates Zach or anything like that.
01:06No, it's not that.
01:07Joe Burrow is evolving.
01:09Joe Burrow knows what it takes to win.
01:12Joe knows that this team is not playing at that standard right now.
01:15And that is tearing him apart.
01:17It's making him very frustrated and it should.
01:20It should.
01:21You're frustrated as a fan.
01:22Of course you are.
01:23I'm frustrated covering this team because you think like, oh, well, if they had just
01:28beat Jacoby Brissett or they'd just done this, they'd be seven and seven right in the thick
01:31of the playoff race and right there.
01:33Instead, they're six and eight.
01:36They're still playing poorly.
01:38Even in a game when you have six turnovers and you force six turnovers, it feels blah
01:43against a bad Titans team.
01:44The Titans are bad.
01:46We saw it.
01:47They are a bad football team.
01:49And so Joe knows it.
01:51And I was like, man, this is just not up to the standard that we need to be at in the
01:55middle of December.
01:57And so no problem with him.
01:59No problem with him voicing his opinion like that on the sideline to Zach Taylor.
02:03I like it.
02:04I think the Bengals need more of it.
02:05And I think we're going to see more of that from Joe moving forward.
02:08Because he knows what it takes.
02:10And all these great quarterbacks, when you realize what it takes and you're not there,
02:17that's maddening.
02:18Because you're still putting in the same work.
02:19You're still putting in the same level of effort.
02:22You're playing at a really, really high level this season, and it's still not enough.
02:27That's frustrating.
02:28And that's why Joe Burrow, in my eyes, did what he did.
02:32And will continue to evolve into, for my money, as good as any quarterback in the league.
02:38And I know Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are in the MVP debate and a lot of people crowning
02:43Josh.
02:44But I think Joe is playing at an elite level.
02:46We've seen that.
02:48And we'll continue to see that, I think, over these next three weeks.