Joe Burrow's on a mission + Matthew Stafford returns to practice (8/19 Hour 2)
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Mike Florio
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I always find those reps valuable and I can get better from those. |
| 0:05.0 | So whatever Zach decides, I'm happy to keep it out there and play as well. |
| 0:10.0 | Some good learning experiences in the couple drives that we've had. |
| 0:15.0 | Got some fumbles out of the way, so that was good. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, those are just incredibly valuable reps that usually work out those kinks. that was good. |
| 0:25.7 | Yeah, those are just incredibly valuable reps that usually work out those kinks in the first couple weeks of the regular season and we've worked them out the last two weeks. |
| 0:28.7 | Would you say it's fair to say this is this prepared that you've ever felt heading into |
| 0:32.4 | a season? |
| 0:33.7 | We still got two weeks, so not yet because we still have two weeks of prep left. |
| 0:39.2 | Ask me again in two weeks, and maybe I'll have an answer for them. |
| 0:44.9 | I don't know what the question was for that last little bit, but the bottom line is you get the sense he'd kind of like to go in week three of the preseason. |
| 0:51.1 | He understands what the team's record is, the first two weeks of the |
| 0:54.4 | season since he arrived as the first overall pick in 2020. They're one in nine in five years |
| 0:59.9 | with him as the starting quarterback. So he wants to work out all those kinks in the preseason. |
| 1:05.9 | He wants to be ready to go week one when they go to Cleveland where he's had a hard time for whatever reason. |
| 1:13.4 | They want to get off, ideally do a two and oh start. |
| 1:18.1 | Because last year, when you lose those games early and you're digging out, |
| 1:22.8 | what a horrible feeling that is. To be constantly digging out. |
| 1:29.0 | Your margin for error is down to nothing. |
| 1:31.7 | Every week, it's extra pressure. |
| 1:33.3 | And there's pressure anyway. |
| 1:34.7 | But when you feel like it's slipping away constantly, |
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