Joe Burrow made an EYE-OPENING statement on Netflix's Quarterback

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John Sheeran discusses how Cincinnati Bengals QB Joe Burrow evaluates his early season play after struggling last in the beginning portion of 2024.

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00:00Joe Burrow starred in the latest season of the Netflix original series quarterback and one of

00:03his quotes really caught my attention it really made me think about this season in general so in

00:07this video I'll explain how he needs to take his own advice. What's up Bengals fans John Sheeran

00:15of A to Z Sports Cincinnati here and I just breezed through Netflix's quarterback season two

00:19featuring Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. I only watched the Burrow parts of the

00:24seven episodes so I skipped past Jared Goff and Kirk Cousins to screen time. If you watch the

00:29whole thing and you watch those quarterbacks feel free to let me know down in the comments

00:32what I may have missed and what you may have learned about those two quarterbacks but I was just focused

00:36on the Bengals guy mainly for work purposes and for making a video like this any takeaways and

00:41any observations that I may have had about watching Burrow kind of really diving into his personal life

00:47and really allowing us access to all of that and for the most part I think it matched my expectations

00:52he's a pretty low key guy he values his family and his close circle of friends he keeps to himself he

00:57plays video games sometimes and he's just all about ball and we saw all the ups and downs of last season

01:02including the literal ups and downs of that Monday Night Football game when they won against the Dallas

01:06Cowboys and then his house got robbed a thousand miles back home we learned at a very young age he was

01:10always kind of into fashion and clothes thanks to his mom he's also really into fossils which I guess

01:14is kind of cool but there was something that he said in the second episode it was very early on in the

01:18season he didn't say to the cameras he was just mic'd up and he was talking to his other

01:22quarterbacks on the team it caught my attention I think it has massive implications on this season

01:26because the number one conversation about Burrow and the Bengals once they get back into the rhythm

01:30of training camp of the preseason is how can they start the regular season better than the previous

01:35five seasons that he's been here and of course this was a massive problem last year when they fell

01:39flat on their face out of the gate in week one against the Patriots and it was between that game

01:43and week two against the Kansas City Chiefs where Burrow said something pretty enlightening that I don't

01:46think he said to the media before while facing away from the cameras during a practice Burrow said to the

01:51the quarterbacks quote sometimes early in the season I think I get a little too like don't turn

01:55the ball over usually I see it and I throw it sometimes I throw a pick but I think sometimes early in the

02:00season I'm just like don't turn it over we're going to win and then it's not always the case we don't often

02:05talk about the discrepancies between how Joe Burrow plays earlier in the season compared to later in the

02:09season but that discrepancy is definitely a thing and I think he described it perfectly

02:13everybody who watches Joe Burrow in November and December they know he's a gamer right they know that he's a

02:18playmaker he can make plays out of structure he can basically make any throw that he needs to make

02:22his accuracy is off the charts he's typically better when the game is on the line and it feels

02:26like almost none of that is true in the first weeks of the season it's like he's a completely

02:30different quarterback and I think part of that is his lack of overall aggression in the early weeks

02:33of the season when he's first getting his feet wet and it's that mindset of being like the

02:36stereotypical game manager where you don't make a lot of mistakes and you just keep the game in front

02:40of you and you think that if you do that and manage the game well enough you're going to win

02:43games and clearly that hasn't been the case for the Bengals in the last half decade now it's

02:47obviously not completely cut and dry all like that right the last four seasons Burrow has had

02:51to overcome some sort of injury leading into the season and that clearly impacted how he played

02:56early on in those respective seasons it would also be easier to win games with the conservative

03:00quarterback if you have a dominant defense and the Bengals haven't necessarily had that either but I

03:04think with the injury aspect specifically he hasn't necessarily felt comfortable enough to push

03:07himself in those weeks of the season when he's first starting to get you know back into the rhythm of

03:11things and that's why this season is so critical because knock on wood he doesn't have to deal

03:15with that in two months time he's completely healthy right now he doesn't have to worry about

03:19making sure that his wrist is right he doesn't have to worry about an emergency appendectomy

03:22doesn't have to worry about a calf string turning into an Achilles injury he's just him he's in the

03:26prime of his career and he knows that he needs to start out the gate a lot faster compared to years

03:31past and the key to doing that I think he already knows because he said it last year Burrow is

03:35obviously far far down the list of the actual problems that this team has but if it takes him a month or two or

03:41three months to round into the elite form that we're accustomed to seeing in November and December

03:44they're not going to get those wins that they need in September and October and there should be

03:48nothing holding Burrow back from being his normal aggressive self in the early weeks of the year

03:53all he needs to do I guess is maybe watch that episode again and remind himself of what he said

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