Joe Burrow Issues Warning to Cincinnati Bengals Locker Room

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00:00The Bengals are 1-7-1 score games, which is just insane to think about.

00:04They are 0-2 against the AFC North when scoring 38 points.

00:10Think about that.

00:11They scored 38 against the Ravens.

00:13Loss.

00:14Score 38 against the Steelers.

00:16Loss.

00:16You're at home in both situations and you don't win either of those games.

00:21Cannot happen.

00:22And yet that's the reality that we're talking about today with the 4-8 Cincinnati Bengals.

00:27And Joe Burrow said a lot of interesting things.

00:29We posted the entire video right here on CBT.

00:32But the good news is, is I have a couple of clips that stood out the most to me

00:37and I think are pretty telling.

00:40The first of which was when Joe was asked about the AFC North

00:45and asked about needing to change things to be better in the division.

00:51And he was pretty blunt that, yeah, things need to change.

00:54I would say we need to change a lot of things this year.

00:58We haven't been good enough.

01:00We haven't been good enough to win games.

01:01So it starts with your division.

01:04You always want to win those and we haven't.

01:08So we got to do a better job.

01:11It goes without saying that the Bengals have to be better in the division.

01:14It goes without saying that they have to be better in one score games.

01:17But now that they're 4-8, what do they have to play for?

01:21What do they have to keep them motivated?

01:26Well, I thought that this was really interesting from Joe

01:30because this is Joe sort of letting everyone know that,

01:34hey, no one's been good enough and you might not be here next year.

01:39There's been a couple of times where Joe's talked about,

01:41well, you put the film out there for all of the GMs,

01:45all of the teams across the league and you want to put out good tape

01:49because you never know where you're going to end up.

01:52And that's always his goal.

01:53That's always his mindset as a player.

01:55And so he wants the guys in the locker room to feel that and be that way too

01:59and have that mentality.

02:00But I thought that this was really, really interesting,

02:04Joe Burrow, on what the next five weeks mean,

02:08not only to him, but to all of the guys in the locker room

02:11that are still on this roster.

02:13Yeah, I think we'll learn a lot about who we have in the locker room,

02:17the guys that we can count on going forward, the guys that we can't.

02:20And I think the next six weeks, five weeks,

02:28are going to say a lot about who we can count on and who we can't.

02:32That's Joe Burrow letting everyone know in that locker room,

02:35hey, you want to be here?

02:37You want to be part of it?

02:38You want to be part of the turnaround?

02:40You better show it.

02:41Letting everyone know what time it is.

02:44That's what I take from those two comments.

02:46The fact that he said,

02:48we're going to find out who we can count on and who we can't is huge.

02:53And last week, I did a video on, all right,

02:55well, these are the young guys that need to step up.

02:59It's that plus all of the veterans, the Geno Stones.

03:05Hopefully Sheldon Rankins can get healthy,

03:06and then we can include Sheldon Rankins in this.

03:09But these guys that you're like, all right, well,

03:12can we bank on you or can we not?

03:14And I know everyone wants to cut all these guys,

03:16but that's what you're evaluating now,

03:20is all of these guys that you're either going to cut,

03:23potentially release, draft the replacement,

03:26sign the replacement in free agency.

03:28All of those things start to happen.

03:30And so if you're Joe Burrow, you know that,

03:32and you better start laying that foundation now.

03:34And so I thought that those comments were interesting.

03:37This was not the angriest I've seen Joe after a loss,

03:41the most distraught I've seen Joe after a loss by any stretch.

03:44I think he kind of just knows.

03:46He knows the situation, knows what this Bengals team is or isn't.

03:52And man, oh man, the defense getting a lot of heat, rightfully so.

03:58Tomorrow, I plan on discussing the future of certain coaches,

04:03what changes should be made coaching staff-wise.

04:06But I thought that this comment was just wild.

04:09And it's really a clip.

04:10And it was about a three-minute interview.

04:12We posted the entire thing after the game

04:14in our Bengals React video that we did.

04:16But Jermaine Pratt was asked about missed tackles.

04:21And there were obviously missed tackles.

04:23It was in the double digits.

04:25I'm recording this on Monday morning.

04:26Luana Ramos set to talk to the writers at some point on Monday, I believe.

04:31And so we'll know how many missed tackles the Bengals tallied.

04:34I know Pro Football Focus had it at 14.

04:37My buddy Jay Morrison had it at 16.

04:40The point is they had a lot of missed tackles.

04:43So when you're captain in Jermaine Pratt, you're a leader,

04:47a guy that was on the Super Bowl team, a guy that was on the AFC Championship team,

04:50a guy that has been around for the good and the bad, drafted in 2019.

04:55For him to kind of be this clueless, this dismissive, this, eh, what missed tackles?

05:04After you give up 520 yards to mostly checkdowns for Russell Wilson, it's unacceptable.

05:11Here's what Jermaine Pratt had to say about missed tackles.

05:14Missed tackles?

05:15No.

05:17Did you feel like there were a lot of missed tackles?

05:20Not that much, I don't think.

05:22I just think that it was just getting the ball out quick.

05:25It's quick game and the screens.

05:27Could it be a matter of not being in the right position?

05:29I'm just saying like, it was just screen.

05:31It was quick game.

05:32They weren't really, they weren't doing too much.

05:34Just getting the ball out quick.

05:35Was it hard to swallow a loss when you give up more than 500 yards in total offense?

05:40Oh, I said like, it was just screens.

05:43And then if we went zero, he just threw like a quick, quick.

05:46It was balls quick.

05:47He wasn't that much.

05:48Why was it difficult to defend those screens since they had so much success on it?

05:52Why did they have so much success?

05:53The ball was out quick.

05:54That's all it was.

05:55Quick, those.

05:56Is that an adjustment that could have been made mid-game to change the way they were

05:59having so much success?

06:00I mean, doing quick.

06:02Missed tackles?

06:03What missed tackles?

06:04I don't think there were many there.

06:05I mean, I just, I think it's so funny.

06:10It would be like, it would be like the Steelers dismissing Joe Burrows passing yards.

06:18Like, passing yards?

06:19What passing yards?

06:21What quarterback?

06:22Like, there were so many missed tackles.

06:24There were so many guys in the wrong spot.

06:26There were so many guys that were unable to wrap up and tackle the way they should.

06:31George Pickens, I think, was a great guy.

06:34George Pickens' 17-yard screen pass touchdown, where he essentially goes untouched and Cam

06:39Taylor-Britt doesn't keep contain on the outside and Geno Stone whiffs.

06:43It can't happen.

06:45And yet it did.

06:46Jermaine Pratt had missed tackles.

06:48Akeem Davis-Gaither had missed tackles.

06:49The secondary had missed tackles.

06:51It just cannot happen.

06:52And yet it did happen.

06:54And that is a big reason why the Bengals are 1-7 in one-score games.

06:58And that one is when they were up two scores and the Browns scored late.

07:03So they stink in one-score games, is basically what we're saying, ladies and gentlemen.

07:07And that is why they are 2-4 when scoring 33 points or more this year.

07:12Un-ba-lie-va-ble.

07:15And yet, it's true.

07:16The Bengals are 4-8.

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