{"id":660539,"date":"2026-05-23T14:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660539\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:05:09","slug":"joe-burrow-on-bryan-cook-you-can-tell-that-hes-going-to-set-a-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660539\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Burrow on Bryan Cook: \u201cYou can tell that he\u2019s going to set a standard\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Jessie Bates III walked in free agency in March of 2023, the Bengals\u2019 safety room has been lacking a leader, in addition to general talent. From Dax Hill to Jordan Battle to Geno Stone, replacing Bates has been anything but successful and seamless. The Bengals even brought Vonn Bell back after letting him walk, too, in 2023. That didn\u2019t work, either.<\/p>\n

But enter Bryan Cook, a two-time Super Bowl champion with a proven track record of playmaking and leadership, the two qualities the Bengals\u2019 safety room has desperately needed for three years.<\/p>\n

And Joe Burrow can already see the impact.<\/p>\n

\u201dYou can tell that he\u2019s (Cook) going to set a standard in that room and make everybody live up to it and put pressure on everybody if they don\u2019t,\u201d Burrow told Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com<\/a>. \u201cYou see that out of Bryan Cook from Day One.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is very reminiscent of when Mike Hilton arrived in 2021, holding every Bengals\u2019 defensive back, cornerback, or safety accountable. He\u2019s just as big a reason as Bates, arguably, for the emergence of the Bengals\u2019 secondary.<\/p>\n

With Cook, the Bengals have that leader, a guy who played and started in 17 games in each of the last two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommitted. Locked in. Good dude,\u201d Bengals cornerback Dax Hill said of Cook. \u201cI feel like he\u2019s a good addition to the defense because of what he brings to the table with the experience he had at Kansas City. I have a great feeling about him. You can tell from his work ethic and how he works out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only is this a rejuvenated secondary, but it\u2019s also a more focused secondary. They\u2019re operating with a sense of urgency, a refreshing feeling from the last three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since Jessie Bates III walked in free agency in March of 2023, the Bengals\u2019 safety room has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[90365,71963,349,99],"class_list":["post-660539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-cincinnati-bengals-free-agency","tag-cincinnati-bengals-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660539","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=660539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}