Joe Burrow Frustrated During Bengals' Win Over Titans

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00:00But after the game, and on the Bengals,

00:03after their final offensive possession,

00:05Joe Burrow clearly frustrated, yelling at Zach Taylor.

00:08And it had to do with the procedural penalties

00:10with his frustration.

00:12And so before we get into my thoughts on it,

00:16here's Joe Burrow on his frustration,

00:18and then Zach Taylor discussing the delay of game penalty

00:24on their final drive that backed them up

00:27from the one yard line back in the red zone.

00:30And clearly Joe Burrow was frustrated about that.

00:32Here's what Joe and Zach had to say.

00:34I was just frustrated in the day that we had on offense.

00:38It was too sloppy.

00:39We had too many penalties, too many procedural penalties.

00:43I had too many turnovers.

00:47It was just a frustrating day on offense.

00:50The headset went out a couple of times on that same drive.

00:53And sometimes I'm not sure what he's getting through there

00:56because mine was making a mistake too.

00:59And I should have been aware of it and called timeout

01:02to keep it on the one yard line.

01:03It just, that one, as I'm trying to,

01:05sometimes you're focused on getting the play in.

01:07And on that one, I lost track of the play clock,

01:10and he probably did too.

01:11And Zach Taylor was asked directly

01:13about the back and forth with Joe Burrow,

01:15and he described it as that as a back and forth.

01:17So I didn't want to dive into that too much.

01:21But when you think about Joe Burrow,

01:24what comes to mind, right?

01:27Elite quarterback, leads by example,

01:29not necessarily a vocal leader.

01:31Well, he's been more vocal this year.

01:33Think about the Raiders game

01:34and how frustrated he was during a win.

01:37And now you see it this time,

01:40and again against the Titans,

01:42and even more so where he's screaming at Zach Taylor.

01:45One, I have no problem with that.

01:47I have no problem with Joe Burrow being frustrated.

01:49He should be frustrated.

01:50The Bengals have not played well this season.

01:52They haven't.

01:53I mean, we're talking about two wins

01:55where he's this frustrated.

01:57And so whether it's the Raiders game at home,

02:01whether it's the other day against the Titans,

02:04I think about this,

02:05and this is the evolution of Joe Burrow that we're seeing.

02:09Because Joe Burrow has been this close

02:12to winning a Super Bowl.

02:14He went undefeated in the college level,

02:17dragged his team to the state championship in high school.

02:20He knows the standard.

02:22And this Bengals team does not meet that standard.

02:25I think it's certainly,

02:27when you talk about the big picture,

02:30is why he's talking about Tee Higgins' future

02:33and says Tee is a need.

02:34Because he knows that they have to get better

02:36this off-season.

02:38And they have to find ways to improve

02:39because they're not good enough right now.

02:41And yeah, and we're gonna talk about it

02:43on End of the Jungle on Tuesday night.

02:45There's a path for them to make the playoffs.

02:47So stay tuned for that.

02:48We'll discuss that, the likelihood,

02:50the confidence level, all of those things.

02:52It's a very small percentage chance.

02:542.1% to be exact.

02:56But this is Joe Burrow evolving

02:59the same way Peyton Manning did,

03:00the same way Tom Brady did.

03:02Tom Brady wasn't screaming at guys in 2002.

03:07But by 2007, 2006, 2008,

03:12this guy, that's exactly what he would do.

03:14And he got hurt in 08, 09.

03:16Peyton Manning wouldn't scream at guys in 98.

03:20But by 01, 02, 03, he was not afraid

03:23to let his teammates know, let his coaches know.

03:26And that's what we're starting to see from Joe Burrow.

03:28He knows the standard.

03:29He knows how hard it is.

03:31I think back to with Brady,

03:33the famous 28 to three comeback in the Super Bowl.

03:37And he's screaming at his offense.

03:39We gotta be faster, tougher.

03:41We gotta play hard.

03:42Like just screaming at them on the sideline.

03:44And he had thrown a pick six in that game.

03:46You know, it's one of those things

03:48where it doesn't mean you're blameless.

03:51It's the opposite.

03:52It's you understand what the standard is.

03:54You understand that you're never out of it.

03:56And so that's why Tom made those comments.

03:58I think that's what we're seeing from Joe Burrow here

03:59is he's evolving into the next phase of his career,

04:03which is a 28-year-old veteran that knows what it takes.

04:08That knows that he's got to hold these guys

04:11to a certain standard, to a certain level.

04:13That he's gotta hold his coach to a certain level.

04:16And so these delay of game penalties,

04:17these procedural penalties, all of these things

04:20that really impact and make it sloppy

04:24and make it hard on offense

04:25and a frustrating day on offense,

04:27it adds up, it stacks up.

04:30And so yeah, the frustration is building.

04:32Joe Burrow's frustrated.

04:33He should be.

04:35He's thrown 36 touchdown passes this year.

04:38He's been awesome.

04:40Awesome.

04:41It was his first two interception game

04:43on Sunday of the season.

04:45Most quarterbacks do that multiple times in a year.

04:48And there's a real chance that Joe doesn't this year.

04:51And yet, you look up,

04:54and they have a 2% chance to make the playoffs.

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