After hearing from Joe Burrow for the first time in quite a while this season, it's safe to say Burrow is bullish on his Bengals in 2026.

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What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.

He's James Rapine, and I'm Jake Liscoe.

And today we heard from Joe Burrow for the first time this off season, the first time he's

had a press conference since the Bengals went out and signed Brian Cook and traded for Dexter Lawrence and signed Boye Maffei and Jonathan Allen and got through the NFL draft and made all the moves they made, brought Joe Flacco back. The moves we've been talking about on this podcast for, well, getting to the point that we've been talking about them for months.

March was two months ago at this point when free agency went down.

And this is the first time you've heard from Burroughs since then.

And he invoked talk about the Super Bowl and the Bengals' all-time passing touchdown record being in play this year,

even though he's 50 touchdown passes off that mark, if it gives you any

idea of where Joe Burrow is setting his sights for his own performance this year, and talked

a lot about what the front office got done this off season, talked about the talent level being

as high as it's ever been in his time with the Cincinnati Bengals.

We're going to dive into that claim a little bit more later this week,

but a lot of Joe Burrow comments and answers to questions to get to James Rapine,

and you were there, of course.

What was the number one thing that stood out to you as you sat down in paycore talking with joe burrow today how

encouraged he was with these off a off season moves and everything that we had read right whether

it's that little magazine that the every dayers remember vanity fair or jeff hobson in bengalscom, which is anything but little vanity fair, it's one of

those where you, you're like, all right, I think this is how it's going to go, but is it?

And some of what he said was similar.

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