So, when he says something needs to change following a third straight season where the Bengals aren\u2019t in the NFL Playoffs, it\u2019s significant.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to be competing for championships every year,\u201d Burrow told reporters on Wednesday. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be in the spot that we\u2019re in now, so something\u2019s got to change, whether it\u2019s players that we have continuing to improve and get better at playing championship caliber football, or bringing guys in that will, or whatever it may be.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, something has to (change).\u201d<\/p>\n
Remember, this is a guy who said three years ago that the window to win a Super Bowl \u201cis my whole career.\u201d Burrow believes he\u2019s good enough to lead the Bengals to a Super Bowl title. But he also knows he can\u2019t do it alone.<\/p>\n
The Bengals\u2019 defense has been a significant hindrance for a second straight year, but Burrow isn\u2019t singling them out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to be a quarterback. I don\u2019t want to work in the front office. I don\u2019t want any scouting guys in the offseason. I want to do what I do, and I want to do it at a high level,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I have, and I\u2019m going to continue to find more and more ways that I can help myself get better, help the team get better, and put ourselves in good positions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fair views from a player who continues to be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Burrow has been having fun during the Bengals\u2019 two-game winning streak. But he knows the standard is higher. The Bengals\u2019 front office has given the impression over the last two offseasons that they are closer to winning a Super Bowl than maybe they really were.<\/p>\n
After this season, though, it\u2019s clear the Bengals need a revamping, especially considering Burrow missed nine games with a toe injury.<\/p>\n
\u201dI think my job is, number one, to play as well as I can. Number two, continue to improve, and number three, be the conduit between the coaching staff, front office, and the locker room, relay feelings that players have, relay sentiments in the locker room, because coaches in front office are not down there every day, and they don\u2019t understand a lot of the things that go on in the locker room.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so I think as a quarterback, your job is to relay some of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Franchise has spoken. Mike Brown, Zac Taylor, and Duke Tobin, you are now on the clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So, when he says something needs to change following a third straight season where the Bengals aren\u2019t in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[20939,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-381117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}