Tiger King: Joe Burrow's Journey to the Bengals

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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"With the first pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals select...Joe Burrow, quarterback, LSU." It's a sentence we'll most likely hear this Thursday night. What kind of pressure -- and team -- is Cincy about to thrust upon the Heisman Trophy-winning star? ESPN's Ben Baby digs deep into Burrow's football story to find out. Plus, he sets the scene in Ohio, where a long history of disappointment has left Bengals fans hungry for success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Smoking Joe is already igniting the Queen City. Today, since he's shirts printing out
0:07.8	teas, faster than Joe Burrow can throw touchdowns, and they say business is booming for the Bayou Bengal.
0:15.6	You know with the Bangles having the 2 and 14 record this past year, this is something we can all
0:21.2	get behind. The Cincinnati Bangles had the NFL's worst record last season,
0:28.0	and in turn looked to be the winners of the Joe Burrow sweepstakes as they're poised to take the
0:34.1	LSU quarterback with the first overall pick in tomorrow night's draft. The local kid
0:39.9	coming home to save the downtrodden franchise would seem to be the stuff that
0:44.8	sports movies are made of. But does Burrow have what it takes to turn things around
0:49.7	in Cincinnati and does he want to play there? I mean it times it's April 22nd this
0:56.7	is E. S. B. N. Daily. Ben, the draft is almost here.
1:07.0	It is. The draft is definitely almost here and I think you've been in Cincinnati
1:12.0	you've been kind of thinking about the draft for like six seven months and so it's kind of weird to think
1:16.4	about the fact that the draft is upon us.
1:19.1	Ben Baby covers the Cincinnati Bangles for ESPN.
1:22.2	What percent of Cincinnati was watching the National Championship
1:25.7	with an eye on Joe Burrow?
1:27.5	A very large amount.
1:29.0	These fans, you know, whenever the Bengal season
1:31.3	started to go south very quickly,
1:34.0	they started to look towards, okay,
1:35.2	we might be having the number one overall pick.
1:36.9	And at the same time, Joe Burrow had an incredible year
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