Joe Burrow to Play More in Bengals' Preseason Games

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00:00But what Zach Taylor did detail yesterday is the preseason plan for Cincinnati.

00:05Joe Burrow, fully healthy this offseason and now in the training camp.

00:11And for a Bengals team that, despite getting hot at the end of the year,

00:16has started in a porous fashion each of the last three,

00:21might they update how much the starters play meaningful minutes in the preseason?

00:26Let's hear from Zach Taylor himself.

00:28Well, the only thing last year with him was we did,

00:31there were days where we limited him where he did not throw.

00:34And so right now there's none of that.

00:37So he'll participate every single day like he normally would, fully healthy.

00:41And then anticipate playing him more in games than we ever have.

00:45Hey, yo, playing Joe Burrow more in preseason games than the Bengals ever have previously.

00:52DRS, I'll ask you the question in just a second,

00:55but I think it needs the context of the slow starts the Bengals have seen really in the entirety of the Joe Burrow era.

01:02And a lot of that, could it be dedicated to the idea that Joe Burrow has not been fully healthy in most of the offseasons?

01:09His rookie year was a bad year in Cincinnati, but they started 0-2.

01:13The year they even reached a Super Bowl, they were 1-1.

01:182022, 2023, 0-2.

01:21Last year, 0-2, and then even worse, 0-3.

01:25Well, playing Joe Burrow and some of those Bengals starters more than we have ever seen in preseason affairs,

01:32DRS, result in a better start to the regular season for Cincy.

01:36Of course it will, but hear me out on this.

01:38There's three preseason games.

01:39We're not advocating for them to play full three-season games, starters all the way through,

01:43and then you're ready for the regular season.

01:45That won't make much sense because those games don't count.

01:47But I'll tell you where they do count, in the weekly preparation.

01:50Anybody that's, you know, played sports before, if you're going into a scrimmage or a game,

01:54like, hey, you know what, you're going to take, sit this one out.

01:56Are you really that focused?

01:57Like, just being a human being, am I putting in the hardest work I can this week,

02:00knowing I'm not going to play?

02:01Am I really in the playbook, keeping my mind sharp?

02:03Maybe not, but if you do have a, you know what, Joe, we're going to start you all three games.

02:08We're probably going to get a couple drives apiece.

02:10That's all you need because they're game rehearsals once you get there.

02:13They say, hey, we get all the work we need in practice.

02:15I get it.

02:16In those glorified scrimmages with other teams that you have, I get that as well,

02:19where it's more controlled.

02:20But nothing beats on a game day where you're saying, all right, game is at 7 o'clock tonight.

02:25I've got to be in the building at 3 o'clock.

02:26I've got to go through my normal warm-ups here, and then I'm not just taking the pads off.

02:30I'm going to play.

02:30I'm going to get into my playbook.

02:31We're going to build some camaraderie here.

02:33We're going to get those out because what you don't understand is once you get into

02:36like week number one, the adrenaline flows so much that you're through like three plays

02:40like, man, I'm exhausted.

02:41It's 85 degrees here on a Sunday afternoon in September.

02:44We haven't played all the way through, and now I've got to play a three-and-a-half-hour

02:47game at 85 degrees, take 70 snaps where, yeah, I'm used to practicing and nobody's touching

02:52me, but I've got to get some of that wear and tear on my body.

02:55I love this here.

02:56From a defensive perspective, I don't care about the defense.

02:59Yes, they need to tackle a little bit more, but that's a little bit different.

03:01Apart from a quarterback, wide receiver, offensive game plan, tempo scenario, I need my guys on

03:08the field as much as possible, and I don't mean a full game.

03:11How about a quarter, quarter and a half in those first three games?

03:13You'll be a much better team in early September than if you just sat those guys and didn't

03:17play anybody in those preseason games.

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