Cincinnati’s starting quarterback says he was playing his best football ever when he sustained a wrist injury last year, but he should be right back there in the aftermath.
The moment came for the Cincinnati Bengals’ coaches at the beginning of August. The Joe Burrow they knew, the one who led their franchise out of the woods, and onto the NFL’s biggest stages for the first time in three decades, was back. And in complete and total command.
But in the end, the headline for those watching was how Burrow, once again, got tougher to defend in a way that wasn’t going to be readily apparent to the crowds of fans gathered for a“I had a lot of time coming back to think about checks against certain defenses that I like,” Burrow said, in a quiet moment, a couple of days later. “That’s been a big emphasis for me over the last month and a half. I’m seeing things really well right now.
And while having his wrist go the way it did—he immediately knew it was bad, as athletes usually do in these situations—would’ve been bad under any circumstance, the real kick in the you-know-where for Burrow came in that he’d just started to feel like himself again after fighting a calf injury for much of the summer, and having it linger a bit into the fall.
And just like that, Burrow was back in a dark place that had become all too familiar over his four-year NFL career, the place where a star is still on the team, but not in nearly the same way. Where you can help your teammates, but not as much. Where you can work on yourself, but without the payoff every Sunday.
“But I think this particular one he was, and probably because it was his throwing side, really conscious about not coming back too fast or pushing too hard. I’m sure he heard it from Zac and the trainers and Nick over there, and he heard it from me, too. I think he took it to heart.” And while he’d help as needed, he was getting as much from it as he was taking. It was good, if a little difficult, to be around his teammates. There was also something he felt like he could take from every meeting that, perhaps, he’d be able to draw on in 2024.
So with a wealth of time, what the coaches saw in that single third-down period in August, the thing that no one else watching noticed, was coming together.“He was awesome in his manipulation of the protection, moving players in different spots to try and uncover the look from the defense, doing it crisply, doing it with command,” Pitcher says, describing that third-down period.
“He’s an extension of the coaching staff,” Taylor says. “He needs to understand why we’re doing something. I need his input. If I like a play, and he doesn’t like a play, I shouldn’t call that play. If there’s something he loves, I need to start to love it. I get that. Matt Moore always helped me with that. If a quarterback loves something, he’s going to make it work. You’ve empowered him.”
Jimmy Burrow’s had plenty of moments of pride stemming from his youngest son, but there was one that really stuck out this summer.
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