Joe Burrow Is Giving The Bengals Hope
The Lead
Wondery
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Joe Burrow is just over halfway through his rookie season and, while his team has not been great, he has been. In addition to putting up big numbers and closing in on the rookie record for 300-yard games in a season, Burrow has also become the face of the franchise overnight and has stirred up more excitement among Bengals fans than anyone in recent memory. The Athletic’s Paul Dehner Jr. joins us to discuss what Burrow's coaches say makes him so special, why his teammates selected him as their captain as a rookie, and how he stacks up in his talented rookie class.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead Add Free on Amazon Music. |
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| 0:07.0 | Bangle's quarterback, Joe Burrow, is just over halfway through his rookie season. |
| 0:17.5 | And while his team hasn't been great, he has been. |
| 0:20.5 | Joe Burrow, he's a quarterback in the future. |
| 0:34.1 | I've never seen somebody more calm, cool and collected. |
| 0:39.7 | And what his arrival has meant to Bangle's fans. |
| 0:49.4 | From wondering on the athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:16.0 | It stays with you. |
| 1:21.4 | Well, so Paul, you are born and bred since Cincinnati. |
| 1:24.4 | And you've been covering the Bengals for over a decade now. |
| 1:27.6 | Can you talk about what the arrival of Joe Burrow has meant to the city of Cincinnati? |
| 1:32.7 | Uh, hope. |
| 1:33.7 | You know, they haven't had much of it. |
| 1:36.6 | They've had some good teams here. |
| 1:38.9 | But you know, they spent a decade with Andy Dalton, who was sort of the prototypical average |
| 1:43.5 | NFL quarterback that inevitably proved that couldn't get you over the hump. |
| 1:50.5 | And they felt sort of lost really. |
| 2:01.3 | And then all of a sudden, here comes this guy, the prince of South East Ohio. |
| 2:06.3 | The one thing that I'm focused on right now is just playing really well and doing my job. |
| 2:10.2 | But I'm going to be three times as escaping a potential sec. |
| 2:16.0 | His volume numbers are really unprecedented. |
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