{"id":278286,"date":"2026-05-20T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278286\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:46:21","slug":"joe-burrow-orlando-brown-jr-share-insightful-outlooks-on-bengals-2026-schedule-quirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278286\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Burrow, Orlando Brown Jr. share insightful outlooks on Bengals’ 2026 schedule quirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cincinnati Bengals will have the same weekly schedule during the first half of the 2026 regular season. Both quarterback Joe Burrow and left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. are content with that reality.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSep 14, 2025; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Cincinnati Bengals offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. (75) walks off the field after the victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars at Paycor Stadium.
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The Cincinnati Bengals are starting the 2026 regular season with seven consecutive 1:00 p.m. ET kickoffs<\/a>. They won\u2019t get to another window until their Week 9 game in Madrid, Spain<\/a>, where the local time will be 3:30 p.m. and 9:30 a.m. back in Cincinnati. <\/p>\n

Both quarterback Joe Burrow and left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. believe this to be an advantage for the Bengals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s good,\u201d Burrow said to Bengals.com\u2019s Geoff Hobson<\/a>. \u201cWhen we go on the road, we get back home early and watch more football.\u201d It\u2019s always beneficial to watch more games. See how teams are playing and what teams are doing. See what defenses are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s perfect,\u201d Brown said to Hobson<\/a>. \u201cLove that. No late game nights, a lot of rest, the same routine. That consistency is going to help us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bengals can capitalize off consistency in first two months of 2026 season<\/p>\n

There used to be a time when Bengals fans craved the 1pm start times. Cincinnati regularly struggled while playing in primetime games at night before head coach Zac Taylor took over with Burrow as his QB. <\/p>\n

Those days are well in the past; to the point where a lack of night games early in the year seems odd. Burrow likes it for the added preparation time for future opponents. Brown is a fan because of the consistent routine it provides.<\/p>\n

Brown is also fine with the Week 6 bye week. Cincinnati will not be getting extra rest following its international trip, rather it will come after the first five games and pave the way for 12 consecutive weeks of play to close the year out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got no complaint about that,\u201d Brown said. \u201cAs a player, we\u2019ll get on a roll and get on a roll as a team. Normally, right around that week seven or week eight, it\u2019s always great because the team is settled in the seven-to-eight range.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bengals have consistently been a better team during the second half of the season over the past five seasons. They are 20-20 in their first eight games and 26-18 in their final nine since 2021. <\/p>\n

Cincinnati is effectively a 10-win team in the second half of the year since its Super Bowl season. It sounds like Brown is excited to continue that without a bye week getting in the way this time around.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBengals 2026 Schedule Release: Game-by-game predictions for Cincinnati\u2019s 17-game slate includes surprise triumphs and letdowns\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 2026 regular season schedule is out, so it\u2019s time to predict how they will fare against 17-game slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals will have the same weekly schedule during the first half of the 2026 regular season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[118757,118758,49313,139,54597,141,140],"class_list":["post-278286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-bengals-schedule","tag-cincinnati-bengals-schedule","tag-joe-burrow","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-brown-jr","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}