The Curious Case of Joe Burrow

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Will Joe Burrow play this week? Hell if we know, but Jeff breaks down all the angles of Burrow's potential to get back on the field. He discusses some potential reasons why Burrow was full in practice yesterday, what Zac Taylor had to say about Burrow's chances of starting this week are, and what to look for over the next two practices.

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0:00.0	Right back where you at.
0:13.5	Yo, what's up?
0:15.4	This Thursday, November 20th week 12 about to start tonight.
0:20.6	And what a week it's been more news than I can
0:23.4	remember all season long, at least impactful news and not all of it's bad. You know, I get it
0:29.5	when big news breaks. It's usually bad in the NFL, but something interesting has gone down
0:36.4	this week. And I did want to do a one-off podcast episode
0:39.9	about that, something, of course, you can see from the title, Joe Burrow. The curious case of
0:45.7	Joe Burrow. Well, it was a surprise just last week when he was designated to return from
0:53.0	injured reserve. And, you know, just in general, I know the injured reserve rules, most people are fairly
0:59.7	familiar with them, but the nuances maybe they don't entirely get because I actually
1:02.8	had some people asking me about this.
1:04.5	So if you are designated for return, the team has 21 days from designation to activate you.
1:11.6	You could be activated at any point.
1:13.6	It could be on day one.
1:14.9	It could be on day 21.
1:16.6	Can't be on day 22, though.
1:18.5	If you reach that point, the three weeks are up, 21 days go by,
1:23.5	you automatically revert to season ending injured injured reserve because somebody was asking me,
1:29.1	well, how does that work? Do they get a second stint on injured reserve and then have to miss four
1:33.3	or more games? No, you go to season ending. So we've seen that happen. More often than not,
1:40.0	the player is activated from injured reserve at some point very rarely believe it or not do we
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