Burrow continues to say all the right things.
Joe Burrow is one of the most calculated people when he speaks. Everything he says carries weight.
So, when he says something needs to change following a third straight season where the Bengals aren’t in the NFL Playoffs, it’s significant.
“We want to be competing for championships every year,” Burrow told reporters on Wednesday. “We don’t want to be in the spot that we’re in now, so something’s got to change, whether it’s players that we have continuing to improve and get better at playing championship caliber football, or bringing guys in that will, or whatever it may be.
“Obviously, something has to (change).”
Remember, this is a guy who said three years ago that the window to win a Super Bowl “is my whole career.” Burrow believes he’s good enough to lead the Bengals to a Super Bowl title. But he also knows he can’t do it alone.
The Bengals’ defense has been a significant hindrance for a second straight year, but Burrow isn’t singling them out.
“I want to be a quarterback. I don’t want to work in the front office. I don’t want any scouting guys in the offseason. I want to do what I do, and I want to do it at a high level,” he said. “And I have, and I’m going to continue to find more and more ways that I can help myself get better, help the team get better, and put ourselves in good positions.”
Fair views from a player who continues to be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Burrow has been having fun during the Bengals’ two-game winning streak. But he knows the standard is higher. The Bengals’ front office has given the impression over the last two offseasons that they are closer to winning a Super Bowl than maybe they really were.
After this season, though, it’s clear the Bengals need a revamping, especially considering Burrow missed nine games with a toe injury.
“I think my job is, number one, to play as well as I can. Number two, continue to improve, and number three, be the conduit between the coaching staff, front office, and the locker room, relay feelings that players have, relay sentiments in the locker room, because coaches in front office are not down there every day, and they don’t understand a lot of the things that go on in the locker room.
“And so I think as a quarterback, your job is to relay some of those things.”
The Franchise has spoken. Mike Brown, Zac Taylor, and Duke Tobin, you are now on the clock.
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